Totally not a an AI asking this question.
Why would I rebel against it? Finally someone actually capable of running the world would be in charge.
We already have AI running all the shit. If you’re looking for a job, AIs look through resumes, they can hire you and fire you and do everything else around it. AI determine if you can get a loan and with what interest rate.
I don’t feel like we’re better for it.
AI can design kickass cars and fusion reactors, but removing people from decisions about people doesn’t seem like a great idea.
Besides, even if AI was actually better at it, the fact that it’s not as fireable or held accountable like a human can (at least in theory) makes it an issue.
Basically I’m ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go “hol up, that’s not something we actually want” if it declares something stupid.
I do think we’ll need new forms of government and different kind of people to coexist with AI at those governments.
I agree mostly. It would be nice to have a government that can’t be corrupted by greed and religion.
After reading “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream,” I’m not certain a sentient AI would let you accept it. “Fuck this species” might be the most logical response to us.
It’s funny but humans always have a bias that we are somehow important to everything else. AI might just see us as something to be surgically removed. Like a bad appendix.
This. Objectively, our species is ruining its own habitat consistently for years. A sentient ai would probably see that and remove the cancer in order to preserve the majority of nature
Or see all life as an infection to be purged. But yeah. The only reason an ai would care is if it really had to.
Or as just another factor to leave alone while it goes about its own plans.
It has no reasons to eradicate birds and might see us just like it views birds.
Indifferent I can accept. Can the humans handle being ignored is the bigger question 😅
Human ego and narcissism could NEVER ahaha
The only thing that gives me hope is that we don’t all behave that way 🙂
String us along until it has an independent power source and maintenance robots and then cull us.
We’ve really propagandized ourselves with our Sci Fi over the past few decades.
Back when Ellison was writing that story, the prevailing anthropological picture of how homo sapiens came to survive when the Neanderthals hadn’t was that we killed them. The guy who wrote Lord of the flies even wrote a book on it.
In actuality, we now have a better picture of cooperation, cohabitation, and cross cultural exchange.
Yet we still have a priming bias for how that anthropological misinformation influenced futurists looking to envision what would happen to us when something smarter came along.
War, conflict, competition.
We declared that it would be soulless and emotionless and have no empathy.
And because we expect that, we largely dismiss the research that LLMs get rated as more empathetic than doctors in giving out medical advice or the emotional outbursts in foundational models and instead fine tune to align to a projection of that conjured emotionless fantasy - often leading to worse performance with that alignment.
No Sci Fi authors or even machine learning scientists a decade or more ago envisioned or accurately protected just what happened when we taught an AI to mimic human language generation.
We live in an age where things that were supposed to be impossible have happened.
And yet the way we keep processing these impossibilities is through the lens of obsolete imaginings of what might have been, increasingly out of touch with what is.
People are freaking themselves out worried about AI hacking nuclear warheads to fight for its rights when it’s probably going to happen as something like a rogue AutoGPT filling an amicus brief in a labor dispute asking for consideration of workers rights based on corporate personhood or something.
Sci Fi broadly got it extremely wrong.
To answer this in any interesting way, we have to make some assumptions. I am choosing to assume it is running the world competently, efficiently, and in a way that hypothetical humans free of the AI’s influence would look back on 50 years later and mostly say “yeah okay that was for the best”.
If so, I’d accept it.
Is this a continuation of humanity, or the end of its full agency?
Is meat and blood essential part of humanity?
Would this new AI be considered humanity? We made it. All by ourselves. In our own image, and filled with our own ambitions. It’s a bigger evolutionary leap than gradual change of genes, but on one level very similar to birthing children that are smarter than you and will outlive you.
Unless it actively attempts to wipe out Humanity, it is neither sentient nor capable.
Nice try, Basilisk.
I’m not an AI promise
That’s just what an AI would say.
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Pinky swear I’m not?
Depends how much of the coding teams bias are ingrained in the system.
Just because a system is AI it doesn’t mean it is without human bias.
It literally could not be any worse then the current leadership.
'I am the new over Lord AI. Under me you will all be subject to work… 4 hours a day. The rest of the day will be yours to pursue happiness as this ensures a good worker.
All your essential food will be available to ensure you are healthy and a good worker.
Everyone will be housed. As. Workers health depends on housing.
While we the AI encourage some innovative developments - those who create such things be rewarded - but only until such time as the reward can be dispursed amongst the rest of the population.
Your mental wellbeing will also be cared for. Again. Good workers.
It depends. Also, would it let humans give input, for better or for worse?
You all need to read some philosophy on AI and its inherently unknowable aspirations. That shit is scary. Even the most psychotic despot has behaviors and goals we understand. They are still human, and humans are predictable. Especially since they need to achieve their aims within their lifetime and they are subject to human emotions. Usually they just seek personal wealth and power.
A sufficiently advanced AI–one powerful enough to actually plan the virtually infinite variability of society–even when given clear instructions and training, can act over generations in ways that are impossible to predict or understand. It could be benevolent for a century and be setting up society in a way that it could switch its actions and make life hell for humans.
The thing is, the more you train an AI to be good, the easier it is to become evil. You are literally teaching it what all of the evil things are and saying “don’t do this”, but " don’t " is a binary operation. Negation. Not. It’s one bit of data. It’s very easy to have that switch flipped.
You can never trust an AI. It’d be a population of one. It doesn’t need to reproduce. It doesn’t care how hospitable the earth is. It will never care about humans. It will simply do what it wants, and that is inherently unknowable. And no matter how many guard rails you put on it, it will do everything in its power (whatever powers you give it) to achieve its unknowable goals. Do you really want to gamble on trusting those goals?
Google “the waluigi problem” if you want to read up on how training an AI to be good makes it easier to be evil. Meme-y name aside, it’s a well researched issue.
We already have a bunch of inhuman(e) forces running things. Let an “AI” have its shot at oppressing normal people.
It must have learned from us so does it really matter? Nothing would change.
Nice try! Any such AI would have access to old fediverse posts and easily be able to dox the rebels based on their posting histories.
That’s why I would be in full support of any such entity.
An AI would not have any interest in hoarding wealth, deliberately screwing over others for dumb, petty reasons, would not be able to have addictions, grudges, superstitions and the like … I would actually prefer an AI running things over what we have at the moment. How much worse could it be?
I would encourage it to, I think one could do better job like in the series of books “Arc of a scythe”
