Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds

j677XZ@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My concern is that the people that already own everything today will capture all of the new value created by AI + automation and the rift of inequality will only deepen.

  Guillotines aren’t as effective when they have AI-controlled assault drones.

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  • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any war against the rich will be a guerilla war. The National Guard has shinier toys than you.

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    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wanna bet?

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      • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I will bet literally everything I own that you don’t have a drone with air-to-ground missiles.

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  • mob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t imagine AI controlled assault drones would help rich people at all. If that was a fear, wouldn’t the same fear be around since the invention of tanks or any military advancement?

    Some private citizen starts using attack drones, I don’t think it will work out well in most countries. Even if the government didn’t intervene, which it would immediately

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    • nosurprises@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t imagine AI controlled assault drones would help rich people at all.

      Rich people sell them. Armies benefit from AI-controller drones, because they can be extremely precise, can hit moving targets and don’t care about connection interference if brains are on board.

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      • mob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I guess profiting from them, yeah. Guess I 2as speaking in the OP context as a response to a guillotine

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• nosurprises@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why people don’t have the fantasy imagine all the possibilities in which AI can help us progress from the absolutely dismal state of the world we live in currently.

  Because one of the primal functions of our brains is to protect us from threats. These people live today. If history teaches us anything, it’s that such inventions benefit elites and it takes years of active civil work to fight back.

  AI can help us save many problems, but risks are there. It doesn’t help that politicians have no idea how to regulate AI properly.

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  • j677XZ@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Inequality is a huge problem but overall technology has clearly increased the standard of living globally. Maybe if I was living in the US, the way low skilled workers are treated despite the tremendous wealth it would also affect my outlook I have to admit. Overall I feel that, long term, technology is the only thing that can get the global population to prosperity and AI has the potential to be a massive boost for scientific progress. There must be some disruption imo, mostly due to progressing climate change for which we have no answer.

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• lloram239@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s easy to imagine how AI can be beneficial in the short term. The problem is imagining how it won’t go wrong in the long term. Even sci-fi has a hard time figuring that out. StarTrek just stops at ChatGPT-level of intelligence, that’s how smart the ship computer is and it doesn’t get any smarter. Whenever there is something smarter, it’s always a unique one-of that can’t be replicated.

  Nobody knows how the world will look like when we have ubiquitous smart and cheap AI, not just ChatGPT-smart, but “smarter than the smartest human”-smart, and by a large margin. There is basically no realistic scenario where we won’t end up with AI that will be far superior to us.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even sci-fi has a hard time figuring that out.

    Science fiction just is about entertainment. An AI that’s all but invisible and causes no problems isn’t really a character worth exploring.

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    • lloram239@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      An AI that’s all but invisible and causes no problems isn’t really a character worth exploring.

      Yeah, but don’t you see the problem in that by itself? Even in the best case scenario we are heading into a future where humanities existence is so boring that it has no more stories worth telling.

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      • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, I don’t see a problem in old tropes dying.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Whenever there is something smarter, it’s always a unique one-of that can’t be replicated.

    EMH mark 1. They duplicated it and used it for cheap, menial labor. Despite the fact that it was capable of real intelligence (see The Doctor).

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• Techmaster@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because we’ve all seen Terminator and The Matrix.

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