alt Hacker NewsIt’s great that nuclear power safety events are so well managed that nearly 100% of events go completely unnoticed by the public.
Unironically this is the kind of headline I’m expecting in 2040 about one or more major AGI systems running an electrical grid, factory or similar.
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> nearly 100% of events go completely unnoticed by the public
"Nearly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Those "nearly" 0% of events which DO go noticed by the public, like you know, Fukushima, tend to be world news for weeks at a time.
I doubt AGI will be used for life-or-death systems like that if it resembles anything like the LLMs of today. Systems at that scale are about risk management, and everything we know about AI suggests that it cannot mitigate risk at all. All AI is seemingly a net-positive risk factor.
Really, the "big AI story" will be when the next Snowden defects from the NRO and tells us what SENTIENT is doing. Until then it's just going to be a bunch of pie-in-the-sky wishcasting about what we want the future to look like. It's getting a little tiring hearing people insist that abundance is around the corner while surveillance is here-and-now.
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This was a power safety event in the sense that safety was accidentally added. Like oops, we accidentally put the pin back in the grenade.