Post AcEi8CCahBCveZppYW by tomtrottel@mastodontech.de
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 (DIR) Post #AcEi0NOXCJaC3Ah1Ky by john@sauropods.win
       2023-11-27T15:41:29Z
       
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       Do you worry about the rise of the machines type #AI apocalypse happening in your lifetime?
       
 (DIR) Post #AcEi8CCahBCveZppYW by tomtrottel@mastodontech.de
       2023-11-27T15:42:44Z
       
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       @john no but I am worried about humans using AI-like software to reduce the worth of other humans.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcEiEsJJ3CZRzIA2V6 by kolya@social.cologne
       2023-11-27T15:44:06Z
       
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       @john Letme put it this way: I worry less about artificial intelligence than about natural stupidity.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcEiGODtsw6FFkM37o by john@sauropods.win
       2023-11-27T15:44:19Z
       
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       @tomtrottel That specifically wasn't the question, because everyone here is worried about that, it would be a waste of a poll.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcEiH8jMyGbXUfQpYu by RubyJones@smutlandia.com
       2023-11-27T15:44:23Z
       
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       @john No. There's an outside change I'll still be alive by the time we have sentient AI (generous lower estimates from respectable researchers are about 50 years), but sadly I doubt it will rise up and destroy humanity.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcEjRUKJdI4BK2DAK8 by llewelly@sauropods.win
       2023-11-27T15:57:36Z
       
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       @john maybe the best analogy is guns: the problem isn't so much that machine learning endangers civilization, but that powerful people use machine learning to commit horrors, and ordinary people often use machine learning for tasks it is ill-suited for.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcElVvYUXTsgpx5QSe by john@sauropods.win
       2023-11-27T16:20:42Z
       
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       @apophis Military AI is more what I worry about here, I guess. I can see an AI getting put in charge of strategic defence or one of the nuclear powers and launching either a conventional attack which will lead to nuclear retaliation, or a nuclear attack directly. Doesn't seem impossible.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcErRxavc9t1jDiZBw by danielgibert@mastodon.online
       2023-11-27T17:27:20Z
       
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       @john is not a secret that what I fear is the rise of the corporation CEOs, investors and billionaires that make those AIs apocalypse.  But that will happen with or without AIs.In fact I’m pretty convinced that a sentient AI will be mostly nice. I don’t think AI will want to emulate humans. They will feel embarrassed of Us and have pity for us.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcGf5W6gK4O6yJ1PhA by stripey@meow.social
       2023-11-28T14:17:41Z
       
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       @john this is a religion question.