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"It's been
the year of fretting about AI. While there are many ethical
considerations with AI, the issue of labor being one of the primary ones (see
The Work of Art in the Age of AI), what AI evangelists talk about is often
rooted in "Longtermist" concerns such as the end of human civilization as we
know it. "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority
alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," reads
a statement signed on by CEOS, academics, and other members of the business
elite.
This framing has always been precarious, not only because it overstates the
current level of this technology (AI is nowhere near Skynet levels) but because
it undercuts the
actual existential threat we are currently facing — i.e.,
climate change. Over the next few years, our society will be shaken to its
core, not by AI but by our warming world, and any conversation that is not
grounded in dealing with these concerns is fundamentally not serious and a red
herring."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
