How many studies do researchers need to do before the threat of LLMs is taken seriously? This technology *might* have some useful niche applications, but widespread deployment will be a disaster for humanity.
This shit is an existential hazard, and not in the way the AI companies love to talk about. It's not going to take over the world like Skynet, it's a cognitohazard that turns anyone that interacts with it into an idiot.
I should stop talking about AI. Like so many other social issues, I'm only preaching to the converted. All it does is remind people of Yet Another Bad Thing You Have No Power To Change.
Or to put it a different way, whatever levers you have available to influence the situation are probably already being pushed. Me reminding you doesn't do anything other than make you feel worse.
@malcircuit These conversations are useful, if only to help us articulate our shared concerns to others. While we may not individually control the situation, we are able to collectively improve our odds.
For example, I've been reading more about cognitive load and debt. I mentioned it a work conversation on Monday, and my boss used that language with her leadership yesterday, then we had a followup conversation today about how difficult it is to train humans to catch unintuitive mistakes.
These posts, including the amulet and atrophy metaphors, will directly help me to continue those conversations and start new ones. Articles and posts like these help us to build definitions, cite examples, and reframe the narrative, so thank you for forwarding this and for adding your perspective and imagery.
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