The existential threat of artificial stupidity By Bart Hawkins Kreps, originally published by An Outside Chance March 15, 2024
Class, a corporation is never going to allow an AI to "decide" that predatory capitalism, planned obsolescence, wasting resources, pollution, or consumerism is wrong and must end.
There is no basis for trusting ANY decision made by AI, simply because for-profit corporations are not going to allow it to "decide" anything at all that will go against their profit-at-all-costs imperative.
Not to mention the surveillance issues.
"...With minor variations headline writers have posed the question, “What if AI falls into the wrong hands?”
But AI is already in the wrong hands. AI is in the hands of a small cadre of ultra-rich influencers affiliated with corporations and governments, organizations which collectively are driving us straight towards a cliff of ecological destruction..."
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