> Creating new life forms? Many people can barely raise their own children. Can you imagine if tech companies create advanced lifeforms? It's truly a disaster waiting to happen.
I never said it would be a good thing per se.
>It's rather rude to call it pointless FUD. AI messing up our world is real and I have thought it through at great length.
The particular comment I was referring to was FUD about humans losing their humanity due to interacting with AI, which to me is indeed FUD. There are very real serious issues with AI alignment but this doesn't seem like one to me.
>Having the perfect friend is actually immensely scary. It will create a world where people interact mostly with their electronic AI friends and where people no longer rely on each other. It is very unlikely that there will be any fabric of society left at that point, and people will start to hate the existence of other people...
It's not clear that current society is that great and it's going to have to change to adapt a future AI or we will certainly disappear. From a purely utilitarian perspective if AI friends replace real ones but net happiness goes up this would be a fantastic success. Certainly relative to other possible AI dystopias.
>The best thing that could happen would be the dismantling of all these tech companies by physically destroying all their servers and backups, just as we have done with huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
You can't really think this a possible or reasonable undertaking. Luddism isn't going to save us. Not to mention your example is one where that process has completely failed and Nukes are still ubiquitous.