The dangerous fantasies driving the quest for super-intelligent AI
In a digitally decentralized world where generative AI can lower the barriers of creation even farther than ever before, and bots can be trained under the perspective of your choosing, an already fractured reality becomes at risk for disintegration. Or, as science-fiction writer and professional futurist Madeline Ashby told us in a recent interview... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
The leading labs have all said building AGI is their explicit goal, which focuses on some vague technical dream of replicating human intelligence but says very little about the broader implications for humanity.
Now, this is good news for the people in this room.
The biggest challenges we face aren’t technical.
They are psychological, philosophical–q... See more
Now, this is good news for the people in this room.
The biggest challenges we face aren’t technical.
They are psychological, philosophical–q... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
The merger of infotech and biotech might soon push billions of humans out of the job market and undermine both liberty and equality. Big Data algorithms might create digital dictatorships in which all power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite while most people suffer not from exploitation but from something far worse—irrelevance.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
This naive view justifies the pursuit of ever more powerful information technologies
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
For the most part, members of the dystopian camp aren’t worried about the AI takeover as imagined in films like the Terminator series, with human-like robots “turning evil” and hunting down people in a power-hungry conquest of humanity. Superintelligence would be the product of human creation, not natural evolution, and thus wouldn’t have the same
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