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>>tablet+(OP)
I’m an AI skeptic. I’m probably wrong. This article makes me feel kinda wrong. But I desperately want to be right.

Why? Because if I’m not right then I am convinced that AI is going to be a force for evil. It will power scams on an unimaginable scale. It will destabilize labor at a speed that will make the Industrial Revolution seem like a gentle breeze. It will concentrate immense power and wealth in the hands of people who I don’t trust. And it will do all of this while consuming truly shocking amounts of energy.

Not only do I think these things will happen, I think the Altmans of the world would eagerly agree that they will happen. They just think it will be interesting / profitable for them. It won’t be for us.

And we, the engineers, are in a unique position. Unlike people in any other industry, we can affect the trajectory of AI. My skepticism (and unwillingness to aid in the advancement of AI) might slow things down a billionth of a percent. Maybe if there are more of me, things will slow down enough that we can find some sort of effective safeguards on this stuff before it’s out of hand.

So I’ll keep being skeptical, until it’s over.

>>habosa+VM
> I am convinced that AI is going to be a force for evil.

In so many ways too. I cannot fathom the scale of mass data collection and surveillance.

Multiple people I’ve recently spoken with (very smart and educated people) consistently are using it to discuss some of the most intimate things about their life.

Things that no existing social media platforms or any other tools are simply capable of that.

>>absolu+2T
Think bigger than just the stuff you type in to chatgpt. People and companies are going to start running these LLMs on your entire private messages and photo libraries that are sitting in plain text on someone else's server.

They are going to have in depth summaries on everyone. Our whole security and privacy model up until now has relied on "Technically someone at Google or the government could see my data but realistically they don't have the resources to look at non targets" Now they really will have an agent looking at everything you do and say.

Authoritarian governments are going to have a 1 click CSV export for all the individuals problematic to them based on private conversations.

>>Schema+ZX
This is why you should have 1 click CSV export of all bad people in authoritarian governments, and build tools to fight them. Because they certainly won't stop using the technology, no matter how long you speak about ethics. If you won't work for them, it doesn't mean nobody will.

Build weapons and empower yourself.

>>atemer+UZ
They have access to all my data. I don't have theirs. The only solution I can see is everything moving to end to end encryption, all social media going private, etc. But it won't happen fast enough. And the damage is going to be horrendous.