Comment on AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor

• lily33@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since I don’t think this analogy works, you’re going to have to explain how the world would look like if everyone had access to AI technology advanced enough to be comparable to a nuke, vs how it would look like if only a small elite has access to it.

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  • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay, well, if everyone had access to an AGI, anyone could design and distribute a pathogen that could wipe out a significant portion of the population. Then again, you’d have the collective force of everyone else’s AI countering that plot.

    I think that putting that kind of power into the hands of everyone shouldnt be done lightly.

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    • Hanabie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are papers online on how to design viruses. Now to get funding for a lab and staff, because this is nothing like Breaking Bad.

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    • Rayspekt@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You still can't manufacture it. Your comparision with nukes is actually a good example: The basic knowledge how a nuke works is out there, yet most people struggle in refining weapon-grade plutonium.

      Knowledge is only one part in doing something.

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    • lily33@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would say the risk of having AI be limited to the ruling elite is worse, though - because there wouldn’t be everyone else’s AI to counter them.

      And if AI is limited to a few, those few WILL become the new ruling elite.

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      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And people would be less likely to identify what AI can and can’t do if we convince ourselves to limit our access to it.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Since when does AI translate to being able to create bacteria and stuff?

      If having the information on how to do so was enough to create pathogens, we should already have been wiped out because of books and libraries.

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      • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can’t type “How do I make a pothogen to wipe out a city” into a book. A sufficiently advanced and aligned AI will, however, answer that question with a detailed list of production steps, resource requirements and timeline.

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    • serratur@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re just gonna print the pathogens with the pathogen printer? You understand that getting the information doesn’t mean you’re able to produce it.

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      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I need an article on how a 3d printer can be used to print an underground chemistry lab to produce these weapons grade pathogens

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      • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s the thing though: a sufficiently advanced intelligence will know how. You don’t have to.

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    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are we back to freaking out about the anarchists cookbook

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    • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Your brain is an (NA)GI

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    • Kichae@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let's assume your hypothetical here isnt bonkers: How, exactly, do you propose limiting people's access to linear algebra?

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We could all do our taxes for free. Fix grammatical errors. Have a pocket legal, medical advice. A niche hobby advisor. Pocket professor. All in one. Or we could ban it because I fear maybe someone will use it to make memes

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• Hanabie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can google how to make a nuke. Of course, you’re gonna get your hands on the plutonium, which is something even countries struggle with.

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  • Rayspekt@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then I'll ask AI how to obtain plutonium, checkmate.

    But by that point I might just ask the all-knowing AI how I can achieve what I want to with the nuke and cut out the radioactive middle man. Unless the AI tells me to build a nuke, then it's nuke time anyway.

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    • Hanabie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The point I was trying to make is, all the information about viruses and nuclear bombs are already readily available. AI doing the googling for you will not have an actual impact, especially considering what else you’ll need to make it all work.

      I would assume you get the fear of AI from the news media. Understandable, they have a vested interest in keeping you afraid. AI is gonna steal their ad revenue, when you won’t have to visit their shitty websites anymore.

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      • Rayspekt@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don't worry, I was just meming off of your point. Look my other comment in this thread.

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