Comment The AI Dilemma (Score 2) 76
Here's a pretty compelling presentation and call for social action re: AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB0_-qKbal4
They make a lot of surprisingly reasonable comparisons of AI to nukes, along with a pithy justification that AI is potentially worse than nukes, because nukes don't make better nukes. And like with nukes, they think effective global regulation is going to have to start with grassroots concern and activism. Can't trust companies to do it, and government is not equipped in knowledge or pacing to regulate it effectively.
They justify erring on the side of dramatic alarmism by citing some of the significant, potential consequences of not being cautious, and of our long (and recent) history of not being cautious (or even aware that we should be.)
AI (like nukes) is a plausible explanation for the Fermi Paradox. It may not be enough to rely on our paleolithic brains and medieval institutions to protect us from it.