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You think no company, government, organization, or religion will ever allow algorithms to make choices on how to deploy capital or otherwise affect the world without human approval?
Algorithms deploy capital all the time. Some massive chunk of the stock market is just algorithmic trading, as is pricing on plane tickets, and on marketplaces like ebay and amazon.
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An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage. An AI that is simply very good at optimizing a particular task can do a significant amount of damage inadvertently, if it turns out that task in the limit is bad for humans. We have that now. It's called a corporation. See yesterday's article about Exxon.
Which one?
This author is mostly writing an update of 1950s science fiction about a robot takeover. Things to worry about in the near term: - Really effective targeted advertising. Most computers already have a camera watching you. That's now coming to TV sets. Amazon and Google are always listening. So far, all this info is only used to select ads. Soon, it should be possible to generate customized marketing content for each c…
> Reduced need for education. Right now, about half of college graduates do jobs that don't require a college education. For many people, going to college is not cost-effective. That will increase. you seem to implicitly assume that a college education is an unnecessary expense for most and that therefore, it shouldn't be really given away so readily. this suggests to me that you assume that the real purpose of colle…
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An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage. An AI that is simply very good at optimizing a particular task can do a significant amount of damage inadvertently, if it turns out that task in the limit is bad for humans. We have that now. It's called a corporation. See yesterday's article about Exxon.
See also "paperclip maximizer." Then imagine what happens when you have an entire global economy driven by these types of inhuman, amoral agents. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
ai generates content ai pushes ads to promote its content.
It's somewhat already happening: recommendation algorithms choose what content we consume, analytics make decisions from this data and make more content that recommendation algorithms like. AI HFT bots can directly influence economy and so on
This author is mostly writing an update of 1950s science fiction about a robot takeover. Things to worry about in the near term: - Really effective targeted advertising. Most computers already have a camera watching you. That's now coming to TV sets. Amazon and Google are always listening. So far, all this info is only used to select ads. Soon, it should be possible to generate customized marketing content for each c…
> - Reduced need for education.
This subset is the radioactive bits of AI impact. We can always address the rest, but that requires thinking and an education.
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An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage. An AI that is simply very good at optimizing a particular task can do a significant amount of damage inadvertently, if it turns out that task in the limit is bad for humans. We have that now. It's called a corporation. See yesterday's article about Exxon.
See also "paperclip maximizer." Then imagine what happens when you have an entire global economy driven by these types of inhuman, amoral agents. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
Or rather, they're giving the rest of us a glimpse of what life has been like for those at the "bottom of the pile" for a long time: a world organised around goals essentially completely unrelated and indifferent to those people's existence.
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> Reduced need for education. Right now, about half of college graduates do jobs that don't require a college education. For many people, going to college is not cost-effective. That will increase. you seem to implicitly assume that a college education is an unnecessary expense for most and that therefore, it shouldn't be really given away so readily. this suggests to me that you assume that the real purpose of colle…
We have been framing it that way for a long time though. How many times have you heard someone talk about the average income of high school graduates vs college graduates as a reason to go to college? I agree with you though. Education should be about personal enrichment, not personal “enrichment”.
Yes. That changed on February 28, 1967.[1][2]
[1] https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-day-the-purpose-of-col...
An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage. An AI that is simply very good at optimizing a particular task can do a significant amount of damage inadvertently, if it turns out that task in the limit is bad for humans. This is especially the case because it seems like private individuals and companies are racing to hook up AIs to all sorts of real world systems, both…
An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage. An AI that is simply very good at optimizing a particular task can do a significant amount of damage inadvertently, if it turns out that task in the limit is bad for humans. We have that now. It's called a corporation. See yesterday's article about Exxon.
I think there’s a good argument to say no, we don’t have that now, and these are some ways it could be very different.
Video: Why not just think of AGI as a corporation?
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An important point is that AI does not need to be sentient or conscious to do a lot of damage. An AI that is simply very good at optimizing a particular task can do a significant amount of damage inadvertently, if it turns out that task in the limit is bad for humans. We have that now. It's called a corporation. See yesterday's article about Exxon.
> called a corporation That’s banal, self-interested human evil. Corporations and governments alike have perpetuated mass crimes and cover-ups.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
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We already have a mechanism for absolving responsibility: the corporation. It allows shareholders to profit and not lose more than invested. When they invest in tobacco companies, for example, the system is working as designed.
> allows shareholders to profit and not lose more than invested To a degree. (See: piercing the veil.) Also, corporations need an authorised signer, who under current law must be a natural person.
Having algorithms and AI models decide how to profit regardless of how it harms humans is the inevitable next step.