alt Hacker NewsHas there ever existed a technology we couldn't absolutely control? We've made things that are incredibly dangerous, but we also know under what conditions those inventions become dangerous, and can prevent those conditions from occurring.
We are at the beginning of this chapter in technological progress, and it seems a reasonable assertion - though a frightening one - to say that this thing we've made already escapes us when it chooses to.
I'm not an expert though, so please tell me what I'm overlooking.
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Nukes. Early tests carried out without absolute confidence of what would set out apocalyptic chain reaction.
Could argue we knew it was dangerous, but pursued it anyway. Could argue it's not much different than now: Unknown unknowns, potentially apocalyptic consequences, hopefully not.
You know this'll just be another situation where some security company OpenAI are contracting ran this with explicit controls right?
How are even technology people falling for this plausible deniability gambit?