Cory DoctorowThis profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:
Charlie Stross@pluralistic The problem with AI is that it doesn't suffer from Baumol's Cost Disease, so there's a strong incentive in capitalism to use it to replace labour in previously-non-automatable areas. Even though it's highly fallible, and using it as an excuse to cut labour costs means abolishing the capability to detect when it's silently running off the rails.
Chris O’Hara@cstross @pluralistic The great danger inherent in AI is not that the machine will develop its own agenda, but rather that the (childishly literal) machine will do exactly what we tell it to do.
tolortslubor@imall4frogs @cstross @pluralistic Is this an argument for getting humans out of the decision-making loop or what /s but you may have a point?
@tolortslubor @imall4frogs @pluralistic I'd like you to imagine those "death panels" ruling over access to healthcare (that US Republicans keep banging on about as a pretext for withholding socialized medicine in the USA), only its private insurers, the AI system rules on whether your treatment is available or not, it can't cope with uncoded, novel, or rare conditions, and there's no appeal to a human being.