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Togelius: AI safety regulation threatens our digital freedoms

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While I mostly agree with your conclusions, I disagree that "AI taking over the world", or even "turning the world into paper clips" is the true danger of the latest generation of AI. The problem is the strength and "creativity" of generative AI, enabling it to author new and highly powerful computer viruses, create deep fakes that can not be distinguished from the real thing, and inhabit social networks as thousands of convincing bots. While the malfeasants are actually those that wield the AI (like for other potent weapons, from rifles to nukes), not the AI's self awareness, the relatively low cost for the punch makes deep NNs, transformers, etc. dangerous to our society in ways no previous software could ever be. Y(J)S Post a Comment

Togelius: AI safety regulation threatens our digital freedoms skip to main | skip to sidebar Togelius Better playing through algorithms Wednesday, November 01, 2023 AI safety regulation threatens our digital freedoms There are those who believe that advanced AI poses a threat to humanity. The argument is that when AI systems become intelligent enough, they may hurt humanity in ways that we cannot foresee, and because they are more intelligent than us we may not be able to stop. Therefore, it becomes natural to want to regulate them, for example limiting which systems can be developed and who c

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