cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1353899
Article summarized by AI below: The article argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is not a threat to humanity, but a powerful tool to solve global challenges such as climate change, poverty, disease, and inequality. It gives examples of how AI is already being used to improve health care, education, agriculture, and energy efficiency. It also discusses the ethical and social implications of AI, and how we can ensure that it is aligned with human values and goals. The article concludes that AI will save the world if we use it wisely and responsibly.
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Er, i have some problems with this article.
I do concede that it does make a good point about moral panics and media hype. Apparently millenariansim is a thing, and it’s basically the belief that a big change is coming to society, and drastic action must be taken to manage The Big Change. AI, like other new technologies, is plagued with sensationalism. I also agree with reasons #1 and #2, they are solid points that I think should be taken more seriously, like the issues of “AI alignment” and making sure AI models in control of life critial systems do exactly what they are supposed to do in a safe manner.
However, past those reasons, the article is weaker in its arguments. Most of the basis of his argument assumes that the economic functions perfectly according to an neoliberal economics (and we see how well that went). We shouldn’t be letting corporations, who time and time again, have abused their technology for the worse, be in charge of this new technology. In addition, the ending also troubled me in suggesting a technological Cold War with China. If we really wanted to stop China, the most reasonable thing would be to democratize the bleep out of AI, making sure no one country is never able to get a foothold.
Tldr: article does make some good points about moral panics and AI that shoild be further studied, but it falls short of its title because it relies heavily on ideal neoliberal economics
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