AI itself is neither good nor bad. It’s a technology, like knives and automobiles.
It’s what people do with it: you can cook or stab someone with a knife, and you can go on vacation or plow into a bus full of children while drunk in a car.
In the case of AI, a teeny tiny minority of use cases are noble things you’d want, such as cancer research, a larger minority is stuff that nobody wants like deepfakes, and a huge majority is stuff that people want, but that’s used to put people under surveillance or put them out of a job without any means of making a living.
In other words, almost all of the potential good AI holds is squandered by late stage capitalists, who deploy it to make themselves richer at the expense of society as a whole and consequences be damned, rather than changing society for the better.
Wrong question.
AI itself is neither good nor bad. It’s a technology, like knives and automobiles.
It’s what people do with it: you can cook or stab someone with a knife, and you can go on vacation or plow into a bus full of children while drunk in a car.
In the case of AI, a teeny tiny minority of use cases are noble things you’d want, such as cancer research, a larger minority is stuff that nobody wants like deepfakes, and a huge majority is stuff that people want, but that’s used to put people under surveillance or put them out of a job without any means of making a living.
In other words, almost all of the potential good AI holds is squandered by late stage capitalists, who deploy it to make themselves richer at the expense of society as a whole and consequences be damned, rather than changing society for the better.
A knife doesn’t require a data center to work and bus wasn’t created with stolen work.
Those are valid complaints, but they only necessarily apply to LLMs, not the general concept of intelligence that is artificial.