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Originally Posted by rsrguy
I like the idea of an unbiased AI or even AGI working towards medical/health solutions, tech advances etc. My concern is deep fakes and other immoral and seedy applications that could be used for bearing false witness... the possibility of negative political uses are positively horrendous. AI will be used in the near future (maybe already) to warp mass individual reality to manipulate everything we do, purchasing, habits, politics etc. Pretty much sci fi level gas lighting and brain washing.
My gut tells me we shouldn't go there.. if there was a way to guarantee its use wouldn't extend to the cognitive manipulation of the masses and remain in tech I'd probably be all in, as it stands.... no, mainly because I don't trust the programmers/coders...
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To the bolded, absolutely. People can't even discern reality with what's out there now. Once believable fake content can be generated at will, political discourse will have to be completely modified to cope or it will just be chaos.
And no tech with potential downsides has ever avoided them, we have to take the good and the bad. Take the Haber process as an example. Chemically synthesized fertilizer revolutionized agriculture, but also opened up the mass production of high explosives. So I wouldn't blame the programmers--they're out there trying to create something new that could be a boon to the world--it's the people in charge we need to worry about.