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As Kate Darling has pointed out, we tend to trust robots differently than we do humans, often sharing deep and meaningful facts about our lives at a much quicker pace then we might another human.
Joshua Smith • Robot Theology
For these reasons, and many more, Abbott advocates for what he calls A.I. Legal Neutrality—that the law should not discriminate between AI and human behavior.151 What this means is that the legal system should grant rights to robots when, and only if, it would benefit humans. If AI and automation are not regulated and left up to the visions and pow
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In the case of AI-based child pornography, a few—though not Meta or OpenAI—have argued it could serve as an alternative to consuming pornography created from actual child abuse. These include the director of ethics education in psychiatry at Mount Sinai, Jacob Appel, who says he would be reluctant to regulate the burgeoning AI sex-bot industry beca
... See moreBen Weiss • Meta and OpenAI Have Spawned a Wave of AI Sex Companions—and Some of Them Are Children
Simply put: AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high.
Ray Nayler • AI and the Rise of Mediocrity
This has strong parallels and crossover to Christianity. There is an absolute good and amazing truth but the world chases mediocrity and less. I love the quote and analogy of the tomato. You don’t know how bad it is until you bite into an heirloom.
No algorithm can replace human wisdom and analysis. But no algorithm will need to if we have abandoned — wholesale — a millennium of critical reading and thinking skills. […]
Patrick • Accidentally building a planetary brain ⊗ The death of critical thinking ⊗ On AI and its existential risks
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence
Ethan Mollick from One Useful Thingreadwise.ioIs that so bad? Isn't it common for skills to disappear when technology makes them obsolete? There aren't many blacksmiths left, and it doesn't seem to be a problem.
Yes, it's bad. The reason is something I mentioned earlier: writing is thinking. In fact there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing. You can't make this point better th
... See morePaul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
This is one major reason I write; to continue to think, to process things. Sure, I use AI considerably in a lot of areas, like summarizing things, pulling out key points or to-dos, I even have it evaluate what I write, fix grammar, test the content to see if it is unique, cohesive, or compelling.
But, I don’t want to offload all of my thinking to AI and stop thinking. Similar to Paul’s point in the article, we used to get strong by working, now we workout to gain strength because working, in most cases, doesn’t provide this benefit for us.
I want to think and to think well. One of my favorite books this year is, “Clear Thinking” by Shane Parrish. I have invested a lot of time and energy into learning improve my thinking. It would be a shame to outsource it to token prediction algorithms.