I must confess to getting a little sick of seeing the endless stream of articles about this (along with the season finale of Succession and the debt ceiling), but what do you folks think? Is this something we should all be worrying about, or is it overblown?
EDIT: have a look at this: https://beehaw.org/post/422907
Ohhh boy I have concerns about AI, I really do. I’m afraid of the misinformation we’re going to have to sort through in the next few years. But as far as those overblown EXTINCTION claims? Boy howdy!
Those billionaires who are claiming that have already got all 10 grubby little fingers and all 10 greasy toes in every pie that is already leading to our extinction.
I’m far less worried about AI ending us than humans.
So maybe it’s the misinformation we should be worrying about, not a Skynet-type nuclear holocaust scenario . . . 🤔
I think that’s realistically what we’re going to have to deal with in our daily lives. The big spooky AI threat I feel like it’s a distraction to keep us from looking at climate change, socio-economic inbalance, the rising boldness of bigotry. All things those people profit from.
It’s funny that with all this tech that’s supposed to increase human knowledge (at least from a positive pre-cyberpunk sci-fi-type mindset), it just ends up doing the opposite and confusing everyone to the point where people can’t distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t.