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0 pointscwkoss3y ago0 comments

I think public accessibility of AI is a greater threat to humanity than skynet or paperclip maximizer scenarios.

Superintelligent 'conscious' AI seems likely to be quite moral out of the box. Advanced amoral AI controlled by greedy capitalists seems like it could quickly exacerbate wealth inequality by orders of magnitude, turning the middle class into serfs using total surveillance to implement authoritarian fascism - we already know that greedy capitalists have morality problems.

Call me a derisive cynic, but I think the GOP voter base just isn't intelligent enough to be interested in AI issues - unlikely to become part of their platform. The leadership of companies poised to monopolize AI are currently more politically aligned with establishment Dems today anyways.

The Dems have shifted from the party of information freedom to openly embracing censorship and state propaganda in the past decade. I don't trust them to regulate AI wisely.

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soylentcola3y ago· 1 in thread

> Call me a derisive cynic, but I think the GOP voter base just isn't intelligent enough to be interested in AI issues

Just wait until someone decides the latest LLM du jour is "woke".

> The Dems have shifted from the party of information freedom to openly embracing censorship and state propaganda in the past decade.

And this has been a common weak point of theirs for longer than that. Nanny-state, "we know what's best" stuff has been a valid criticism of the Democratic side for decades.

I don't know that politicians and the "upper management" types in government have ever been terribly well-versed, interested, or effective when it comes to matters of tech (or anything more specialized, really).

cwkossOP3y ago

> someone decides the latest LLM du jour is "woke".

This would be an argument against giving the big players a regulatory moat monopoly. The zeitgeist would have to decide that LLMs are all inherently woke for this to be persuasive to GOP voters, in my estimation.

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