Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
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Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
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#2If I can plausibly say I'm making something super dangerous, the government is likely to want to be the first government to have it. If the check clears before they figure out if I'm BSing them or not, it's a win.
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#3It does feel like a bizarre moment, where the AI companies are deliberately trying to scare us about their own product in a bid to, I think, show the inevitability of it? Or to sell themselves as the one responsible power to constrain it?
It's very odd. "It's going to take all your jobs" is not a great selling point to the everyday public.
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#4I read and experience scary stories about AI already. It is not a future maybe thing.
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#5Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about anything?
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#6It does feel like a bizarre moment, where the AI companies are deliberately trying to scare us about their own product in a bid to, I think, show the inevitability of it? Or to sell themselves as the one responsible power to constrain it? It's very odd. "It's going to take all your jobs" is not a great selling point to the everyday public.
People are renowned voting or buying in their own worst interests. And it goes back to before Trump and in many countries.
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#7It does feel like a bizarre moment, where the AI companies are deliberately trying to scare us about their own product in a bid to, I think, show the inevitability of it? Or to sell themselves as the one responsible power to constrain it? It's very odd. "It's going to take all your jobs" is not a great selling point to the everyday public.
People are renowned voting or buying in their own worst interests. And it goes back to before Trump and in many countries.
Yes but in order to get someone to vote against their interests you need to sell them on something else that's a benefit. They don't just automatically vote against themselves.
"This technology might escape our control, might devastate the economy but also serves as a serviceable chatbot for your entertainment" isn't a vote winner.
Re: Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
#8It does feel like a bizarre moment, where the AI companies are deliberately trying to scare us about their own product in a bid to, I think, show the inevitability of it? Or to sell themselves as the one responsible power to constrain it? It's very odd. "It's going to take all your jobs" is not a great selling point to the everyday public.
It is very odd, indeed. It's a bit of both well known "hells of marketing": fomo on the one side (you better use us as heavily as possible), combined with mysticism of "we don't know what we created, but it's powerful and you better follow us to be on the right side"
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#9Indeed. Apart from the obvious prompt research frauds mentioned in the article, the model learned all deceptive behaviors from hundreds of Yudkowsky scenarios that are easily available.
It literally plagiarizes its supposed free will like a good IP laundromat.
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#10I don’t think the fact that the robot was instructed to lie to a human and was able to do so successfully makes the story much less scary for most people.