by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I don’t think it makes me an AI “doomer” to simply suggest there be SOME sort of guardrails built in to AI, especially given the very real possibility that AI could consume, well, everything.
Just like nuclear power can both power a city and blow it up, so, too, can AI power take humanity to a new level of peace and prosperity…and make reality a living hell.
Of course, some of all this desire to have “unbiased” and “unaligned” AI comes from people who are either oblivious to the consequences of that desire or people who want to blow up the world. The whole thing is fucked up.
If AI is going to be as important as I believe it will be, then, yeah, we need some controls to make sure it doesn’t let people easily figure out how to hurt a lot of people. But, alas, Something Bad is going to happen — really bad — before we have the political will to do anything about “aligning” or “unaligning” AI.
I do think that the AI / robotics revolution has only just begun. We’re not even at the end of the beginning yet. It could very well be that we reach a Petite Singularity between now and early 2025 — so we could face The Fourth Turning politically and the Petite Singularity on the technological front.
