Ulrike HahnMar 9
it’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
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@UlrikeHahn it is helping the Pentagon wonderfully by killing innocent
schoolgirls.
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Show threadUlrike HahnMar 9
@timagal indeed, and I think we should all be able to agree that that horror indicates the limits of “ridicule as praxis” as a strategy for countering the development of AI systems and their impact, however well-intentioned that strategy might have been
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@UlrikeHahn Anthropic pulled the plugged on these two dictators, and rightfully so.
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@timagal the same goes for any strategy that rests largely on trying to dissuade people from using AI by telling them it doesn’t work and it’s evil, because that strategy’s effectiveness presupposes that people’s evaluations of the actual system capabilities, what they personally could or could not do with these systems, as well as what utilities/values are involved in using them will ultimately match your own.