I don’t think current implementations cause an existential risk. But current implementations are causing a backward step in our society.
We have lost the ability to get reliable news. Not that fake news did not exist before AI, but the price to produce it was not practically zero.
Now we can spam social media with whatever narrative we want. And no human can swift through all of it to tell real from bs.
So now we are becoming even more dependent on AI. Now we need an AI copilot to help us swift through garbage to find some inkling of truth.
We are setting up a society where AI gets more powerful, and humans becomes less sufficient.
It has nothing to do with dooms day scenarios of robots harvesting our bodies, and more with humans not being able to interact with the world without AI. This already happened with smartphones, and while there are some advantages, I don’t think there are many people that have a healthy relationship with their smartphone.
People act like the truth is gone with AI. Its still there. Don’t ask chatgpt about the function. The documentation is still there for you to read. Experts need the ground truth and its always there. What people read in the paper or see on tv is not a great source of truth. Going to the sources of these articles and reports is, but this layer of abstraction serves to leave things out and bring about opportunities to slant the coverage depending on how incentives are aligned. In other words, ai doesn’t change how misinformed most people are on most things.
SNR. The truth isn't gone, but it is more diffuse. Yea, the truth may be out there somewhere, but will you have any idea if you're actually reading it? Is the search engine actually leading you to the ground truth? Is the expert and actual expert, or part of a for profit industry think tank with the sole purpose to manipulate you? Are the sources the actual source, or just an AI hallucinated day dream sophisticated linked by a lot of different sites giving the appearance of authority.
We have lost the ability to get reliable news. Not that fake news did not exist before AI, but the price to produce it was not practically zero.
Now we can spam social media with whatever narrative we want. And no human can swift through all of it to tell real from bs.
So now we are becoming even more dependent on AI. Now we need an AI copilot to help us swift through garbage to find some inkling of truth.
We are setting up a society where AI gets more powerful, and humans becomes less sufficient.
It has nothing to do with dooms day scenarios of robots harvesting our bodies, and more with humans not being able to interact with the world without AI. This already happened with smartphones, and while there are some advantages, I don’t think there are many people that have a healthy relationship with their smartphone.