alt Hacker News>Because AI genuinely is an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous
I urge you to consider the elephant in the room you failed to mention if you earnestly believe this then.
In what world is anyone allowed to sell something they expressedly know to be "extremely dangerous" to the public?
Let's say I created a lethal pathogen that I know to be lethal in certain common environments but also know it acts as a "no side-effects" antidepressent for people in certain other environments and I release it knowing full well I can't control it.
When people start dying can I defend myself by saying, "Well I said and documented that it was extremely dangerous and no one came to stop me, so I don't see how you can blame me...If I didn't do it someone else would have."
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Is it a hallucination machine and a stochastic parrot or is it so powerful we need it to be controlled like nuclear weaponry
this happens all the time. have you heard of the Sackler family and the opioid crisis?
the difference here is that they’re calling for someone to stop them, which is both weird and unconvincing because these immensely powerful billionaires can in fact make their own decisions