We need to start treating AI development, and its potential impact on the possibility of a humane world, as seriously as we treat climate change. I’m not even talking about existential risk or far-flung, distantly possible applications. I am talking about things that are coming in the next half-decade. I’m talking about stuff that’s technically already possible but is still in the implementation phase.
My summary: we need to democratize all powerful institutions like yesterday. Seriously y'all we're running out of time
Good post. Tricky to respond to as well - I think very few people beyond AI researchers themselves have a good idea of where the field is and what even the short term future looks like. Can a historical materialist perspective offer solutions without the AI equivalent of the Paris Commune?
Also, this website is weirdly reactionary sometimes. Most of the conclusions in the article are not so wildly farfetched to justify being dismissed outright.
Good post. Tricky to respond to as well - I think very few people beyond AI researchers themselves have a good idea of where the field is and what even the short term future looks like. Can a historical materialist perspective offer solutions without the AI equivalent of the Paris Commune?
Also, this website is weirdly reactionary sometimes. Most of the conclusions in the article are not so wildly farfetched to justify being dismissed outright.
It's easy to dismiss the article's conclusions when you don't bother to read it.