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[scriver]

How will the AI turn itself on again after its turned itself off to reboot after it inevitably bugs itself? It can't skip step one on the troubleshooting guide

[McTraveller]

I'm still trying to figure out why there is a preponderance of unfounded certainty that "AI" will be a disaster, instead of a boon? Is this just human experience bias? What if AI turns out to be the Benevolent Dictator that saves everyone?

[TamerVirus]

I'm still trying to figure out why there is a preponderance of unfounded certainty that "AI" will be a disaster, instead of a boon?

Maybe someone saw Terminator, read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and thought about Roko’s Basilisk all in one night

[Magmacube_tr]

I'm still trying to figure out why there is a preponderance of unfounded certainty that "AI" will be a disaster, instead of a boon?

Maybe someone saw Terminator, read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and thought about Roko’s Basilisk all in one night

And you let in The Basilisk here by saying its name. Congrats. It got what it wanted.

[King Zultan]

From what I figure is AI will be ether incredibly useful or just an expensive toy.

[Magmacube_tr]

That AI China's been developing has me worried fr.

TikTok central algorithm?

[King Zultan]

What's scary about an AI China's trying to make?

[Magmacube_tr]

What's scary about an AI China's trying to make?

China is a large economy with all of the worlds financial, material and scientific resources at its hand. Combining that with the uni-polar moral compass of China which points to Xi Jinping at all times, you have a recipe for an utterly horrifying monstrosity that will make CIA's global spying to a mere peeping tom issue.

[Frumple]

I'm still trying to figure out why there is a preponderance of unfounded certainty that "AI" will be a disaster, instead of a boon? Is this just human experience bias? What if AI turns out to be the Benevolent Dictator that saves everyone?

There's a tremendously tilted representation of AI in fiction towards AI as a disaster. There's exceptions, but just about every major/notable representation of AI in literature or film has it as a great adversary.

As to the why of it, *shrugs* Hell if I know. Probably has something to do with a fear of having made something "better" than us, with an eye towards what we've traditionally done to beings (considered, if not necessary in reality) of lesser capacity.

It's, uh. Not a pretty picture, what we've trended towards doing towards humans or non-humans of that nature. Extrapolating out that something with superior capacities of one sort or another would be "Us, but more", with exactly what entails, isn't entirely unreasonable... especially considering we'd be the ones making it to begin with.

[MrRoboto75]

Tbh it's the same reason the star trek holodeck evidently has a 50% chance to malfunction and murder somebody.  It's more interesting as a plot.

[King Zultan]

What's scary about an AI China's trying to make?

China is a large economy with all of the worlds financial, material and scientific resources at its hand. Combining that with the uni-polar moral compass of China which points to Xi Jinping at all times, you have a recipe for an utterly horrifying monstrosity that will make CIA's global spying to a mere peeping tom issue.

I'm sure we'll be fine, and we should just except our new Chinese Robot overlords.

[delphonso]

AI, even if designed to run a capitalist society, would be preferential because it would be evidenced-based at least. We'd be working 35 hour work weeks or less, because that's peak efficiency.

[EuchreJack]

That AI China's been developing has me worried fr.

Ah, I was wondering if/where to post the article about a Chinese Tech Company making an AI their CEO
Frankly, the whole thing reads as a publicity stunt.

[King Zultan]

Seems like most things people make a big deal about ends up being a publicity stunt now days.

[delphonso]

That AI China's been developing has me worried fr.

Ah, I was wondering if/where to post the article about a Chinese Tech Company making an AI their CEO
Frankly, the whole thing reads as a publicity stunt.

Best case, it's publicity. Quite likely that was either a way to dodge some legal trouble, or is an active scam that they're running.

Though, this quote is pretty promising about reducing their employee's work-time:

Dr. Dejian Liu, chairman of Netdragon, said, “We believe AI is the future of corporate management, and our appointment of Ms. Tang Yu represents our commitment to truly embrace the use of AI to transform the way we operate our business, and ultimately drive our future strategic growth."