The more I see people talk about the benefits of AI, the more I see it as a tool for reducing humanity.
It is very much the false idol, indeed the goal of AGI is simply Deep Fake Humanity, and this not just crossing the uncanny valley. All the tasks AI does are things humans might delight in - we are not talking about better robots for driving EV taxis or industrial production lines- we're talking about things that make people people. By definition, AI does not give humans agency, it takes it away.
The areas I am fine with "AI" is where we use it to accelerate things like physics models (e.g. weather prediction). But that's really just neural operators as a fast approximator for PDEs, and also Bayes and causal inference where we get an explanation of why X probably makes Y happen.
I really think we should stop other kinds of AI, as they are a crime against humanity waiting to happen.
When we talk about AI as an existential threat, most of the time we're referreing to AI linked to weapons (nukes, bio-weapons etc) but in Speculative Fiction (e.g. Childhood's End or other great classic stories) when human's encouncter super-smart, often benificient or completely benign, but sometimes super helpful aliens, the usual result is a rapid diminutation of the human spirit. A collapse into couch-potatoe status for the whole of planet earth. and the complete loss of ambition to do anything (e.g. explore space, or even just our selves).
I'm wondering if Adrian Tchaikovsky will write a sequel to the very excellent Shroud and where that will go?
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