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WHAT IF OUR AUTO-COMPLETE CHATBOTS DECIDE TO KILL OFF HUMANITY BEFORE WE EVER BECOME A TYPE 1 CIVILISATION ooooooooooooooh

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm convinced AI developers love bigging up how much government intervention AI needs to prevent it exploding the world because they know that intervention will come in the form of:

a) laws that preferentially treat the big companies and muscle out any small fry competition, and

b) big grants to increase 'safety' or whatever (or government funding as a military asset)