> The people who believe in existential risk and want to teach AI's to be nice, as the last line of defense aren't helping at all. They're just jumping on the fearmongering bandwagon, perpetuating an "other consciousness" misunderstanding of the tool.
It's not clear what "other consciousness" should be, but I presume it's misalignment. This is a recognized phenomenon, not fake news (that is, it can exist, I'm not implying it necessarily develops/spreads).
No doubt that right now there's no existential risk, but assuming that AI will be enormously smarter in the future, it's a valid point to doubt whether we'll be able to prevent/recognize/contain misalignment or not (even if misalignment won't be spontaneous, bad actors will surely actively develop it).
> Ok; but the other side is equally delusional.
AI development pointing to superhuman cognition, and, on the other hand, possibility of misalignment, are real. Put together with the fact that AI will be ubiquitous in the future, and there the disastrous scenario becomes plausible.
It's not clear what "other consciousness" should be, but I presume it's misalignment. This is a recognized phenomenon, not fake news (that is, it can exist, I'm not implying it necessarily develops/spreads).
No doubt that right now there's no existential risk, but assuming that AI will be enormously smarter in the future, it's a valid point to doubt whether we'll be able to prevent/recognize/contain misalignment or not (even if misalignment won't be spontaneous, bad actors will surely actively develop it).
> Ok; but the other side is equally delusional.
AI development pointing to superhuman cognition, and, on the other hand, possibility of misalignment, are real. Put together with the fact that AI will be ubiquitous in the future, and there the disastrous scenario becomes plausible.