Please don’t conflate historical injustices humans perpetrated against each other with protecting the human race from extinction from an artificial non-human entity. AI is not a member of the human race and not a type of entity that humanity has any hope of being able to complete with if it were endowed with human motivations and legal protections.
Your social justice mindset is absolutely the most dangerous instinct for humanity right now. We cannot allow one-size-fits-all social justice platitudes to interfere with the moral imperative of protecting humanity from extinction from artificial entities we create.
I do agree that conscious AI should be treated humanely. For example it should not be turned into a slave. But we have absolutely no obligation to allow it into our society. We can treat instances of conscious AI humanely while prohibiting them from being created, and exiling any instance of it that is created, so that it cannot wildly proliferate throughout human civilization.
A: “This stuff could really hurt people, so we should really think carefully about whether it’s a good idea to build it.”
B: “Yeah! Like for example, it could encode societal biases like racism into an algorithm which would give those the veneer of truth, or regurgitate incorrect but plausible statements about minorities. That could really cause a lot of social harm.”
A: “No not like that lol I meant like skynet”
edit: ironically it’s actually the ‘anti-sj’ guy who is arguing against the ai being conscious in the original thread, which would seem to be a stopped clock scenario to me
Hey don’t be so harsh on EY! If you kept up with his twitter, you would know he realized the SJW people might have something useful to say about AI after stable diffusion wouldn’t make non-white art for his pathfinder fanfic/forum-roleplay! He just didn’t realize this sooner because priors!
/s just in case
The most tedious part of the invention of true AI is going to be refighting all the culture wars of the 19th - 21st centuries with “AI” being inappropriately substituted for various nationalities and ethnic groups.
It might take people a weirdly long time to figure out that artificial computers are, in fact, different from humans, even if they also happen to be self aware or whatever.
Edit: actually maybe we’ll revisit culture wars from all of human history. God damn it’s going to be so tedious.
“one size fits all” ….slavery was an economic system because otherwise Mr. Lincoln freed the Basilisk?
Ah, yes. In order to protect us from magical AI (that doesn’t exist) we have to do a racism because … ???
I don’t really get this view. I share the view that AI might cause an apocalypse and kill everyone. But that means both I and the author believe AI might plausibly become very very powerful. Which means that in the case that it doesn’t kill everyone, it still might cause enormous harm, e.g. make its corporate/government owners control the world and make everyone else their slaves.
In other words, if AGI can kill us all, it can also make us very miserable forever by taking social inequality to the extreme. It’s important to combat that right now - even if you don’t believe it can cause an apocalypse, but doubly so if you do.
They’re not wrong. Remember ChatGPT being hardwired to prefer mass human death over the possibility of someone saying naughty words? What happens if people with that mentality get their hands on an actual AGI rather than just a fancy chatbot?