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Do you think the advancement of AI going to lead to a skynet situation? (hexbear.net)

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I feel this question is very trite, but Ive been considering how AI hasnt really had its killer app in the consumer market. The military industrial complex has floods of cash and you can see the collaboration between big tech and the government today. Also as conditions worsen the average person is not going to be able to afford the AI toaster or whatever they come up with as a consumer product. I dont see the bourgeois who invested so much into AI pivoting to something else, so the conclusion ive drawn is it will have to be the military that is going to be the main consumer.

Conditions worsening is going to lead to chaos and resistance in the streets and it seems like that is when the government can start deploying their AI-based military applications. Idk what form it woukd take, possibly autonomous systems that put down protests/demos etc.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, but I can see someone causing a lot of harm and blaming ai for it. It's already happening on a small scale.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A few months ago a guest on trashfuture was talking about this. They said how a lot of this "predictive/AI/surveillance and recognition" technology is not more efficient or effective than having a human do the same thing, but what it does is that it obscures the decision making process, making it impossible for any kind of accountability or oversight of actions taken by fully automated or semi-automated "defense" systems. If target acquisition or firing is supported by AI, who's to say the software didn't just glitch and tell the poor innocent war criminal to shoot an unarmed child?

And in addition to this, it adds a layer of abstraction between the operator and the consequence of their input, making barbarous acts of violence mundane. We already have a very good example of this with drone operators: they just press A on an Xbox controller and someone, along with their whole family just blow up. Adding a probabilistic layer to this kind of dynamic just works in a similar way to a light switch with "shabat mode": you flip the switch, and the computer in it will randomly turn on the light, so you don't think that you turned the light on, even if the result is always the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

pretty much everything is going to be blamed on AI from now thru the foreseeable future i'm sure