Alaric Aloor🐕🏎⚽️🥃This is a good piece, from 2019, about how the risk from AI becoming "self aware" and oppressing us is overblown while talking about the real risks from AI to worry about, including economic disruption, failures in life-critical applications and weaponization by bad actors. The piece tries to explain the decoupling between intelligence and the drive to dominate.
"But because AI systems did not pass through the crucible of natural selection, they did not need to evolve a survival instinct. In AI, intelligence and survival are decoupled, and so intelligence can serve whatever goals we set for it. Recognizing this fact, science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov proposed his famous First Law of Robotics: “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” It is unlikely that we will unwittingly end up under the thumbs of our digital masters."
My favorite part of the piece though is in the screen grab 👇🏾
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fear-the-terminator/
