I agree with your identification of temporal and proliferation concerns as really frightening AI issues. There must be doubt as to whether we are even capable of fully understanding this technology, and it is likely already too late to keep it out of the hands of malefactors. Our very concepts of morality and truth could become relativis…
I agree with your identification of temporal and proliferation concerns as really frightening AI issues. There must be doubt as to whether we are even capable of fully understanding this technology, and it is likely already too late to keep it out of the hands of malefactors. Our very concepts of morality and truth could become relativistic and much at stake. This leads me to third thing about AI that scares me.
At a Senate hearing today, Sen. Hawley asked a witness whether AI is more like the invention of the printing press or the (thermo)nuclear bomb. He at least seems to appreciate the scale, but I think he still makes a categorical error. AI is not "like" anything else we have ever created before, because it is generative. Printing presses only produce what typesetters give it, and fission or fusion weapons only act where they are detonated. AI doesn't follow any of these rules. It creates its own virtual reality, and migrates wherever it can. It operates independently of its creator, and stands to control its own environment. That's scary.
I agree with your identification of temporal and proliferation concerns as really frightening AI issues. There must be doubt as to whether we are even capable of fully understanding this technology, and it is likely already too late to keep it out of the hands of malefactors. Our very concepts of morality and truth could become relativistic and much at stake. This leads me to third thing about AI that scares me.
At a Senate hearing today, Sen. Hawley asked a witness whether AI is more like the invention of the printing press or the (thermo)nuclear bomb. He at least seems to appreciate the scale, but I think he still makes a categorical error. AI is not "like" anything else we have ever created before, because it is generative. Printing presses only produce what typesetters give it, and fission or fusion weapons only act where they are detonated. AI doesn't follow any of these rules. It creates its own virtual reality, and migrates wherever it can. It operates independently of its creator, and stands to control its own environment. That's scary.
"AI is not 'like' anything else we have ever created before, because it is generative." That makes sense to me.