If you remember one AI disaster, make it this one

[Xipe Totec]

This stuff is chilling. Grab a blankie, pick your favorite teddy, and settle in for one scary story of AI going out of control.

Elon Musk once tweeted: “The safety of any AI system can be measured by its MtH (meantime to H*tler).” This July, it took less than 12 hours for his most advanced AI to become a holocaust-denying Neo-N*zi.

This is the postmortem that never happened, for the most deranged chatbot ever released.

[Midnight Writer]

1. AI will be worthless if it simply parrots the biases, the bullshit, the intentional lies of its billionaire owners.

Knowledge that is not truthful or accurate or that is biased is worse than worthless. It is dangerous.

Unless the AI is "honest", and its owners don't seem interested in that, then it just another tool to manipulate people.

[Blue Owl]

2. I'm kinda glad for Carl Sagan that he isn't around to have to witness today's decline

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

"The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[Xipe Totec]

4. Sagan is my hero. nt

[Disaffected]

5. IMO, The Demon Haunted World

should be required reading for every high-school student.

[yellow dahlia]

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