denett

Ah yes, excellent points. We shouldn't worry about AI risk, because remember, your ancestors were ravaged by tiger attacks, bubonic plague, smallpox, famine, earthquakes, and the Nazis. Thankfully there was always someone with a name like BoneGPT to stand up in the back and shout "STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT, ACCELERATE," and that's why we're here today. It definitely wasn't because people banded together and SOLVED these problems by inventing vaccines, building sewers, forming alliances, and studying the earth. You're naming problems that humankind has worked desperately over millennia to solve, as though it's evidence that problems just solve themselves. For none of these things did we say FUCK IT, IT'LL PROBABLY BE FINE IF WE DO LITERALLY NOTHING. It's the opposite: these are all stories about generations who fought valiantly to eliminate risks so that we, their successors, could live without them. It's on us now to do the same. There WERE people at the time who for each of these things said, fuck it, God will save us. Those people are not our ancestors. Our ancestors were the ones who got their shit together, solved these problems, and survived. AI doesn't became safe on its own. We have to actually SOLVE safety and learn how to control these things. And we will. It took enormous work to make sure planes don't fall out of the sky, or that space shuttles don't spontaneously combust, but we got there. But we have to actually do it. We don't get to just talk about it. We are going to willingly give control of almost all of the levers of society to AIs pretty soon. So we better be absolutely fucking sure that when we do, we're still in charge.