I’ve had similar frustration with conversations that focus on how devastating AI will be, without much mention of who is responsible or how to hold them accountable. One person compared my take to “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” I feel like responsibility has already been successfully deflected and we’ve barely gotten started. I don’t even know how to have that conversation at this point.
Yea wow, hadn’t thought about how resonant the guns debate is with this (I’m not a USian). But very on point.
I can’t help but wonder about great filters and with AI, if it is a great filter (if they even exist), it’s not so much the invention of AI as it is the improbability of arriving at its invention only after sorting through and solving a bunch of social prerequisites, and how there’s a natural tension between technological progress and social safety and caution such that who ever invents AI first will also be less “safe”, a little like the inevitable mutations that lead to cancer.
I’ve had similar frustration with conversations that focus on how devastating AI will be, without much mention of who is responsible or how to hold them accountable. One person compared my take to “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” I feel like responsibility has already been successfully deflected and we’ve barely gotten started. I don’t even know how to have that conversation at this point.
And that take IS still true.
Though of course a strong argument for background checks, reasonable limits, safety, etc…
The US isn’t the only country with plenty of guns, but IS the only place this keeps happening.
Plenty of countries have knives all about. Only China had spree child stabbing.
Because its about culture and social conditions.
Yea wow, hadn’t thought about how resonant the guns debate is with this (I’m not a USian). But very on point.
I can’t help but wonder about great filters and with AI, if it is a great filter (if they even exist), it’s not so much the invention of AI as it is the improbability of arriving at its invention only after sorting through and solving a bunch of social prerequisites, and how there’s a natural tension between technological progress and social safety and caution such that who ever invents AI first will also be less “safe”, a little like the inevitable mutations that lead to cancer.