re: Curbing the AI Threat Requires Government Intervention Now, Not Later

The problem is almost never the latest technological innovation. It always comes down to people, and the motivation/agenda behind what they want to use the technology for.

I have no doubt that AI will be used in a positive way by many people. But, I have to admit that I'm also worried that unscrupulous people could use the same technology in nefarious ways and for reasons that won't exactly benefit people and society.

I'm admittedly no expert on AI, but do any of us really know where this is all headed?

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What is the threat?

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Mass job displacement. Already happening in the largest tech firms. Highly paid jobs are getting purged by the tens of thousands. You could argue they were all running heavy on personnel anyway and AI is just the reason for the purge

There are multiple reasons to be concerned with AI models becoming too powerful. They don't need to turn sentient or turn against humanity. They could do so in error.

We're integrating AI technologies into surveillance of citizens and killing machines. It doesn't take much imagination to see how this might be a problem.

The idea that there should be no guard rails placed on AI is pretty absurd. There are certain tools that are too powerful to be put into the hands of the general public for cyber security reasons. This has been acknowledged by big players on the AI industry like Anthropic who is thankfully self regulating and not releasing their mythos model for public use.

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Its too late. Whatever happens will happen. There's no chance the US slows down AI development and allows China to "win", nor should we.

What is this doing that the industrial revolution didn't do?

Thanks, lake chuck. I'll check it out.

Tech industry is using AI appropriately as they learn more and more. Will be harder for the younger generation to break in though. I’m in sales so continue to ride the wave.

The industry will adapt as it always has. Remember when voip was going to cost millions their jobs. Same thing different verse. The strong will adapt. The rest will find something else

The economy didn't collapse when other notable inventions/processes became standard:

1) The assembly line
2) The IC engine (put a lot of wagon wheel makers out of business)
3) computers
4) the internet/internet sales
5) robotic manufacturing

I think so-called "AI" (which isn't really sentient or "intelligent" at all) will be another tool or process that is adopted but I don't think it will fundamentally change every person's work day to day.

In fact, I am more in the camp this is a bubble in the making, much like the dot com bust in the past.

The reason AI didn’t take off 3 years ago is because Biden and the dems were over regulating it.