Comment on Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon

• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You clearly don’t understand how finance works or don’t understand how leveraged these incestuous deals are. It’s perfectly possible for AI to make killbots and for an AI economic crash to happen.

  You might want to consult a history book. There are a few recurring themes there, silent leges inter arma and vae victis capture most of them. New weapons might change the intensiveness of wars all around the world, because they help those owning them avoid loss of life whatsoever and those not owning them to pay with lives for dealing damage that doesn’t even upset their adversary. Which will bring enormous profits, just not to everyone, only those who conquer. Finance is not all you need for that subject.

  On a humanist note, in “drone army against another drone army wars of the future” scenarios loss of life might be so small that pain and death in wars will be reduced to cases of deliberate sadism. Meaning that … again, there’ll be more war.

  They industry needs to make Trillions of dollars to pay off their creditors and to achieve the profit their investors need to make this worthwhile. That only happens if most white collar workers are replaced with AI.

  No, because profits are not only made from replacing existing mechanisms, but also from building new ones.

  Specifically, most people don’t use computers as really-really meta-machines. They use them as platforms for running specialized applications.

  But LLMs, however expensive in resources, change that. They make computers meta-machines for everyone.

  And also in some races you want to be further from the rear, not closer to the front. If this technology promises a profound crash in any case (because, suppose, it’ll bring about planet-wide totalitarianism), those investments might mean that rush to try to avoid getting eaten completely in the future. Losing less, not gaining more.

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