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0 pointsvouaobrasil3y ago0 comments

What you can do is refuse to participate in it though. I used to be a researcher in a related field and I have decided to stop publishing anything that could remotely be used to further advancements in computer science and AI technology. I will never work in that field again because it is too detrimental to humanity.

You can also refuse to support any such project financially -- if you can make decisions in a company, don't use it. Unfortunately, the situation of companies using new technology is like a prisoner's dilemma situation, so most people will use it if it maximizes their profit. That is why I think we need government regulation on a global scale .

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scrollaway3y ago· 2 in thread

> I will never work in that field again because it is too detrimental to humanity.

And that is a personal opinion. I'm of a different opinion, so this past year I started focusing more and more on AI technology.

YMMV. Maybe it's detrimental, maybe it's the most powerful thing we've ever built. I'm old enough to have heard these arguments about the internet itself, and while the internet absolutely has downsides, hearing some people say that we'd be better off without just saddens me. We've made life better for many; made education more reachable than ever; littered the world with free high quality knowledge; solved incredible science-fiction like problems; made long distance real time face-to-face communication possible; etc.

It'll be the same for AI. And it too will have downsides.

amelius3y ago

You sound a bit like Oppenheimer now.

scrollaway3y ago

And you sound a bit like a luddite. Please respect people's opinions; I respect yours.

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