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curl-6 1 day ago
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Norion said:
curl-6 said:

If AI is already causing numerous problems from mass layoffs to stealing people's works to the enshittification of the internet, how do we know it won't get worse and worse rather than better over time?

Is a world of digital and political dystopia under the boot of AI systems and the billionaires and politicians who control them really worth self driving cars?

Mass layoffs only need to be a temporary issue. A world where all the work required to keep society running is being taken care of by AI systems and robots letting people do whatever they want with their time would make concepts like unemployment rate not matter any more. Governments are gonna need to be ready to handle the period between now and then though.

In general there are indeed future concerns like authoritarian regimes using the technology to crack down on dissent and entrench their rule but overall I very much expect the good to outweigh the bad since the good stuff that's already baked in is massive and that sort of world I mentioned is such a strong end goal that I really think something as disastrous as a Skynet sort of scenario would have to happen for the bad to outweigh the good long term.

Regimes are already using AI for surveillance, propaganda, misinformation, and control, and it's only early days for the technology; looking at the state of the world today with the far right in ascendency across the Western world and authoritarianism thriving across the globe, do we really think politicians and billionaires are going to deploy this technology for the good of the masses, when they're already weaponising it against us?