I don't think these issues have anything to do with AI but 100% with humans.
AI is used everywhere where money is to be made. Let's take ads.
Why do we allow ads to happen all over the place (TV, radio, internet, magazines)? Because they feel stupid, harmless, how else can we sell products, etc? Well, then when a ML system is serving you ads, it's doing it so at the right time and will target you with the bang on content so that you buy exactly what it's needed. For eg. modern ML algos can pick up in which mood and mental state you are (out of 27 different states) by looking at how you read content online, what you read, how many tabs you open or how related the pages you visit are <yes, all cookie(-pool) based>. I know this because I build these things. It works incredibly well. It finds your weak spot, your passion, your habits, your indulgences and makes sure you're always tempted. It can tell more about yourself in a split second than you can think in an hour about who you really are. That bullshit you tell yourself about you doesn't matter because you are the rat the ML algo is baiting you until you bite.
The problem is not that the AI is selling to the diabetic more cupcakes, the alcoholic booze and hipsters new gadgets like no other salesman. The idea of advertising is perverted itself from skin till bone marrow. How can you allow that to be done to the people? And we think this is how things are? OMFG.. AI is just a tool.
WMD are another dead stupid idea only humans could come up with. Me country builds insane big weapons that can whack entire cities in split second just because it can & has more money & and we were first & we won the war & no reason. It also tries to make sure nobody can build it (like Iran) so they all kneel and kiss the ring.
AI kind of levels the field. It's just a bigger nuclear bomb. My is bigger than yours taken to the next level. And that's just the beginning.
AI makes it game on for more players than we like it to be. And it's not just AI (which is just math run by computers), it's mathematics, human genome research, physics, nuclear physics...all STEM subjects. You can come up with a weapon from any mix of these.
There are only two ways out of it.
The humanity dies or we learn how to all work together, chill our entitlement and find our common values regardless of religion, money, skin colour, gender or part of the world. A fart made in any part of the world can kill people everywhere.
If humanity is to turn against itself because countries or corporations play a retarded game in AI/ pharma/ nuclear/fill_in_the_blank .. this only only accelerates a bit the process but the result will be the same.
Let's ditch advertising, pharmaceuticals, OTC, bogus pills created without any fundamentals, weapon industries and all other nonsense industries or acts focused on massive profit at the cost of humanity. Let's ditch all kinds of waste and put people first for once. Let's ditch olympics where we try to prove that my country has it bigger than yours.
Let's invest in education and health, inclusive societies where everyone works hard to solve humanity's tough problems.
We keep building bigger guns but we as a society didn't grow much in empathy, inclusiveness or respect for the planet or other countries.
People are killing people not AI. A machine gun is the safest thing in the world. No single machine gun on this universe loaded itself and started firing precisely to people or animals.
Probably the best thing that can happen to this planet is to have humans vanish while there are still trees and animals around.
It has at least some to do with the AI itself. Of course humans are the ultimate origin of AI, but when your system is run by algorithms created by an AI, you aren't really making the decisions anymore.
Why do we allow ads to happen all over the place (TV, radio, internet, magazines)? Because they feel stupid, harmless, how else can we sell products, etc? Well, then when a ML system is serving you ads, it's doing it so at the right time and will target you with the bang on content so that you buy exactly what it's needed. For eg. modern ML algos can pick up in which mood and mental state you are (out of 27 different states) by looking at how you read content online, what you read, how many tabs you open or how related the pages you visit are <yes, all cookie(-pool) based>. I know this because I build these things. It works incredibly well. It finds your weak spot, your passion, your habits, your indulgences and makes sure you're always tempted. It can tell more about yourself in a split second than you can think in an hour about who you really are. That bullshit you tell yourself about you doesn't matter because you are the rat the ML algo is baiting you until you bite.
The problem is not that the AI is selling to the diabetic more cupcakes, the alcoholic booze and hipsters new gadgets like no other salesman. The idea of advertising is perverted itself from skin till bone marrow. How can you allow that to be done to the people? And we think this is how things are? OMFG.. AI is just a tool.
WMD are another dead stupid idea only humans could come up with. Me country builds insane big weapons that can whack entire cities in split second just because it can & has more money & and we were first & we won the war & no reason. It also tries to make sure nobody can build it (like Iran) so they all kneel and kiss the ring.
AI kind of levels the field. It's just a bigger nuclear bomb. My is bigger than yours taken to the next level. And that's just the beginning. AI makes it game on for more players than we like it to be. And it's not just AI (which is just math run by computers), it's mathematics, human genome research, physics, nuclear physics...all STEM subjects. You can come up with a weapon from any mix of these.
There are only two ways out of it.
The humanity dies or we learn how to all work together, chill our entitlement and find our common values regardless of religion, money, skin colour, gender or part of the world. A fart made in any part of the world can kill people everywhere.
If humanity is to turn against itself because countries or corporations play a retarded game in AI/ pharma/ nuclear/fill_in_the_blank .. this only only accelerates a bit the process but the result will be the same.
Let's ditch advertising, pharmaceuticals, OTC, bogus pills created without any fundamentals, weapon industries and all other nonsense industries or acts focused on massive profit at the cost of humanity. Let's ditch all kinds of waste and put people first for once. Let's ditch olympics where we try to prove that my country has it bigger than yours.
Let's invest in education and health, inclusive societies where everyone works hard to solve humanity's tough problems.
We keep building bigger guns but we as a society didn't grow much in empathy, inclusiveness or respect for the planet or other countries.
People are killing people not AI. A machine gun is the safest thing in the world. No single machine gun on this universe loaded itself and started firing precisely to people or animals.
Probably the best thing that can happen to this planet is to have humans vanish while there are still trees and animals around.