AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
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Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks

Article by AI researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: They point out how doomsday scenarios in regards to AI are far-fetched and how these scenarios prevent us from adressing the actual effects that AI is having right now.

  • QueueEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There was a point made in a couple of places I’ve seen to the effec of “AI doomerism can be seem as a kind of advertisement for AI”.

    Like, look, this is so powerful and so world-changing that it needs to be regulated!! We’re in the singularity!! We need to stop Skynet now!!! When what’s really happening is that it can turn a phrase that seems vaguely coherent if you don’t look at it too closely and a bunch of greedy people are going to try to fire their writing staff as a result.