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Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity (mastodon.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/longtermism-threat-humanity

"AI researchers such as Timnit Gebru affirm that longtermism is everywhere in Silicon Valley. The current race to create advanced AI by companies like OpenAI and DeepMind is driven in part by the longtermist ideology. Longtermists believe that if we create a “friendly” AI, it will solve all our problems and usher in a utopia, but if the AI is “misaligned”, it will destroy humanity...."

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Been reading too much Asimov, I see.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They fr read Foundation and missed the fact that Hari Seldon's preditctions fell apart very early on and he had the benefit of magical foresight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

These people read the cliffnotes and take everything at face value. Reasoning on material does not get you clicks.