There's a full-blown moral panic about AI right now. But the real risk is losing the race to global AI technological superiority.

Article summarized by AI below: The article argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is not a threat to humanity, but a powerful tool to solve global challenges such as climate change, poverty, disease, and inequality. It gives examples of how AI is already being used to improve health care, education, agriculture, and energy efficiency. It also discusses the ethical and social implications of AI, and how we can ensure that it is aligned with human values and goals. The article concludes that AI will save the world if we use it wisely and responsibly.

  • narwhal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The article concludes that AI will save the world if we use it wisely and responsibly.

    That’s a big if.

  • purahna@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders. Now, military commanders and political leaders will have AI advisors that will help them make much better strategic and tactical decisions, minimizing risk, error, and unnecessary bloodshed.

    first red flag - does this guy genuinely think that war is waged with the intent to minimize casualties? That almost seems unserious at face value, but I’ll keep reading

    But the good news doesn’t stop there. We also get higher wages. This is because, at the level of the individual worker, the marketplace sets compensation as a function of the marginal productivity of the worker. A worker in a technology-infused business will be more productive than a worker in a traditional business. The employer will either pay that worker more money as he is now more productive, or another employer will, purely out of self interest. The result is that technology introduced into an industry generally not only increases the number of jobs in the industry but also raises wages.

    What???

    And besides, why isn’t he arguing that AI will take your jobs? The compelling argument for AI here is that AI will take your job and that will be a good thing. That AI will do all of the tasks necessary to keep humans alive and thriving and you will still have to work is extremely dystopian. He justifies this with a quote fom Milton “I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible” Friedman.

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This article all but dismisses the ethical and social implications of AI.

    The climax reads: “The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.”

    Then it exhorts us to barrel ahead at full speed with zero concern for anything other than ‘beating’ China.

    It’s so one-sided it’s actually kind of adorable.