> I am not sure why this is being developed. The potential for misuse is so much greater than any possible beneficial use cases I can imagine.
It's being developed because for decades, tech companies have touted the supposed benefits of new technology and hidden the costs. It's been an avalanche effect of greater and greater technology for greater and greater costs. Only now, the costs are so great that people are starting to wake up.
When we look back in time to see the devastation wrough by technology, we won't look at AI as the starting point. It will be the smartphones, the 4G internet, and the 8K video that we so blindly accepted without ever considering the immense changes to society that they implied. AI may be the start of the end of reasonable society, but it is only the APEX of a phenomenon that has been happening ever since we accepted fossil fuel use without considering the implicates of climate change. It's an entire societal attitude.
It's being developed because for decades, tech companies have touted the supposed benefits of new technology and hidden the costs. It's been an avalanche effect of greater and greater technology for greater and greater costs. Only now, the costs are so great that people are starting to wake up.
When we look back in time to see the devastation wrough by technology, we won't look at AI as the starting point. It will be the smartphones, the 4G internet, and the 8K video that we so blindly accepted without ever considering the immense changes to society that they implied. AI may be the start of the end of reasonable society, but it is only the APEX of a phenomenon that has been happening ever since we accepted fossil fuel use without considering the implicates of climate change. It's an entire societal attitude.