Cassandra is only carbon nowMar 13

I feel like if I were on the other side, and I wanted to advance AI, I'd focus a lot less on rhetorical tricks and a lot more on taking the criticisms seriously and making sure that what I'm advocating is actually ethical.

I don't mean local models here, either. The problems with AI are structural, as much social as technical, and aren't solved by shifting the goalposts.

Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowMar 13
If I'm wrong, if everyone else setting off every alarm bell they can is wrong, do the fucking work and prove us wrong. Go build an actual ethical basis for AI that isn't just an "alignment" sleight of hand. Go pierce corporate secrecy and get real numbers. Go figure out how to keep fascists from using AI to demolish truth. Go figure out how to deal with devastating effects on common culture. Go build labor rights and prevent AI from being an automated scab.
angelthornsMar 14
Show threadNelson

@xgranade AI boosters will never actually do this, tho they might claim to. All they want are excuses to ignore damage from AI, so they can do what they want to without criticism or pushback. It's not good enough to have all the money in the world on their side, they don't even want to see dissent.

Instead they will tell you how it's not as harmful as you think, or it's less damaging than other things people accept, or the harms will be fixed soon, or it's worth it to build an enslaved god.

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Show threadCraig DuncanMar 14

@skyfaller @xgranade

It's a grift, using something that they say is outside the law and everyone else has to obey. Sound familiar?

Show threadsmegMar 14

@skyfaller @xgranade "a machine can never be held accountable, so a machine should never make a management decision"

They WANT the lack of accountability.