James GleickMay 4, 2023

Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from #AI is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

Show threadRusty RingMay 5, 2023
@JamesGleick It's truly ironic that everything dystopian sci fi predicted when I was a kid is happening now, exactly as described, and nobody cares. It's an example of how we ask permission to care about things, and carefully ignore those that our cultural authorities tell us are impolite to care about.
Show threadVon Xylofon
@RustyRing @JamesGleick I don't think it's nobody caring rather than nobody knowing what to do, and setting stuff on fire is not most people's preferred alternative.
May 6, 2023 at 5:58amWeb