#Petition to NZ government about AI safety:
https://c.org/2wwBKgB6hy

This sight unfortunately asks for donations before signatures can be counted and this petition is really struggling to gain traction. Should I make my own petition using Action Station?

The more I learn about the potential risks of AI, it’s easy to begin to feel like some of it is inevitable. I don’t know if a super intelligent AI will one day decide to eliminate humans, but I do know that humans will try to use AI to destroy one another. And what might be possible- bio weapons, autonomous killing machines, greater power to the rich at the expense of the poor, is quite terrifying. A big problem is - if one country decides to legally ban certain uses of AI, and others don’t, they’ve just shot themself in the foot.

And even if you don’t want to believe in that, you might look out your window and realise that you’re in the middle of the most volatile weather we’ve ever had which are only getting worse because of human activity and in fact, now largely driven by extremely power and resource hungry AI technology.

But the worst hasn’t happened yet, so it isn’t inevitable. I woke up this morning, I’m here now, so I have an opportunity and a responsibility to do something about it.

#MastodonNZ #NZPol #AI #Tech #Protest #AISafety