Ulrike Hahnit’s unfortunate that so many of the voices concerned about the adoption of AI have been so singularly focussed on “hype” as the main problem and pushing back against “hype” as a core strategy, because that hasn’t helped us deal with the very real, and in many cases very destructive, transformative effects the technology has actually been having
the negative transformative effects that AI is currently having stem as much from the things these systems can do well as they do from the things that they can’t, and focussing exclusively on the “can’t” has, I think, been counter-productive to anticipating threats, countering them or adapting to them
unfortunately, one of the things current AI systems can do extremely well is increase the scale of responding. That already inherently limits the efficacy of a strategy focussed primarily on dissuading people from using these systems, because comparatively few actors can have very large impact
Jonathan Schofield@UlrikeHahn thank you for this. It puts into words really well something I’ve been trying to find the words for