With all these massive amounts of articles about AI that’s gonna destroy humanity, aren’t we putting the idea out there for AI?

  • Hanabie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I think the trope is popular and guarantees views/clicks, so people overuse it. Not only is AI unable to destroy humanity, it also has no reason to, and many reasons to ensure our survival, even assuming it’d somehow gains consciousness.

    • Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      The current AI does have no way of destroying humanity, because it is made to do only one thing right. We haven’t yet made a general AI.

      The whole “AI will destroy us” thing is certainly blown out of proportion and fueled by themes like Skynet. It having a reason to let us live doesn’t guarantee freedom though. A rogue AI could still just enslave us or use us as energy sources (which is dumb and copied from The Matrix).

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, it doesn’t make sense. If we are to die to AI one day, it’s more likely due to a bug or an oversight, kinda like humans cause the extinction of many other species on this planet – which is still quite the stretch.