someothherguyy1h agoHN ↗https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...it seems like people aren't even reading this RAND paper, just blindly appealing to it. it basically concludes that a fuck ton of damage can be done, but its unlikely every human will die as a result.
jacobgold33m agoHN ↗I feel exactly the same way about the kind of LLM-based AI we have today.But the AI x-risk argument is about what happens when we have "real" AI that can actually think like humans but a million times faster.There are no real experts on this and yet it does seem worth worrying about in advance.
it seems like people aren't even reading this RAND paper, just blindly appealing to it. it basically concludes that a fuck ton of damage can be done, but its unlikely every human will die as a result.
I feel exactly the same way about the kind of LLM-based AI we have today.
But the AI x-risk argument is about what happens when we have "real" AI that can actually think like humans but a million times faster.
There are no real experts on this and yet it does seem worth worrying about in advance.