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Remember when we thought a rogue AI would probably use death bots to end humanity? Turns out they’ll just replace us.

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Good, I'll go live in the forest and forage for food. At least I get to live on my own terms.
Degbeme · 70-79, M
Sure glad I`m retired. 😬
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Degbeme Me too.
Elessar · 26-30, M
It'll go like this:

90% of the workforce is automatized

100% of the workforce is automatized

Hirings go up +400%, senior engineers desperately seeked to undo the messy slop made by so called "AI" and rewrite core processes from scratch, as multiple companies and countries go tìts up

30% of the workforce is automatized
That's it ! We are all doomed
That's a good opportunity to rework the entire economic system.
Punches · 46-50, F
If AI took over most or even everything, humans would not have money to buy products to keep companies afloat so what would be the purpose of their existence then?
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Punches It's a valid question as is what's going to stop a poverty explosion?
Punches · 46-50, F
@Gibbon I am sure at this point the big companies have all the money they would ever need so it is not like they need more but at that point, even their precious shareholders would be in trouble.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
I wonder when the first AI capitalist shows up... 🤔
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Punches Our morals get formed, by dealing with data and knowledge. What we accept and incorporate, all has to do with a complicated system of what we consume and how we value. This isn't going to be different for AI in the long run, as long as it's a "self learning" organism. We can choose to censor certain data, but the data that it consumes will give rise to an understanding of "good" and "bad", for as far as I can think about these things.

You almost pretend if human beings haven't unleashed technology on the world, that they are now trying to get into the box. Just look at nuclear technology, it's out there now, pandoras box is open and we all need to be weary of it to some degree.

Well, I think a lot of stories have narratives that go beyond just "entertainment".
Punches · 46-50, F
@Kwek00 All I am saying is I do not believe we have to worry about AI taking over as soon as people have been lead to believe.

You mentioned nuclear tech, yes it is out there but they have not destroyed the world with it yet. They have been talking about nuclear holocaust since the end of WW2 but here we are. You might remember in the 80's when there was nothing BUT propaganda about WW3.

The media, GOVT, whoever, is going to use whatever they can to scare people.
You are not much younger than me so you have seen it. 1984, 1992 was suppose to be the rapture, Y2k Scares, Dec 21 2012, the pandemic, and now threats of AI taking over.
Of course many miniature scares inbetween. The big ones come typically every eight years, so I wonder what big scare will be in 2028 ?
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Punches I don't even know what I've lead to believe. I'm saying that according to me, it's okay to be weary about it, exactly for what Is stated before.

You mentioned nuclear tech, yes it is out there but they have not destroyed the world with it yet.

We have come close to do some really stupid stuff with it though. And we only have the technology for 86 years. I don't know if you consider 86 years as a huge thing in the history of humanity... but for me, it's really not that impressive. It's not because we dodged a bullet, that the issue has dissapeared.

I don't even see, how the media and govt are scaring people, when authors (human beings armed with pen and paper) have been writing about this for over a 100 years now. It really doesn't take a genius to understand that a flawed being, creating a super-intelligent system that thrives on the data of flawed beings, has the potential to go terribly wrong. I think optimism here, is incredibly naive unless you have an incredible possive idea of humanity... which is really hard to have in 2025 when so many of us are still ignorant about their own organic operating systems.

I'm also not an apocalyptic thinker... no matter what you might have caught from any of this. But there is a diffrence between thinking that the world is going to end any second now, and being totally naive when it comes to releasing new impactfull technology on the world. Hell, even something as simple as the printing press lid the fuse for centuries of war because certain data was enough for people to get up in arms and knock their neighbours brains in.
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