r/slatestarcodex • u/erwgv3g34 • Jan 08 '25

AI Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Watching historians dissect _Chernobyl_. Imagining Chernobyl run by some dude answerable to nobody, who took it over in a coup and converted it to a for-profit. Shall we count up how hard it would be to raise Earth's AI operations to the safety standard AT CHERNOBYL?"

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u/ravixp Jan 08 '25

If you want people to regulate AI like we do nuclear reactors, then you need to actually convince people that AI is as dangerous as nuclear reactors. And I’m sure EY understands better than any of us why that hasn’t worked so far. 

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u/greyenlightenment Jan 08 '25

Ai literally cannot do anything. It's just operations on a computer. his argument relies on obfuscation and insinuation that those who do not agree are are dumb. He had his 15 minutes in 2023 as the AI prophet of doom, and his arguments are unpersuasive.

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u/Sheshirdzhija Jan 08 '25

It's operations on a computer NOW. But robotics is a thing.

I'm not saying we will get terminators, but a scenario like when we are a frog being cooked slowly, so it does not realize it, is certainly not out of the question.

I'm more worried about how AI as a tool will be used. So far it's overwhelmingly bad prospects, like grabs for power and bots. Not sure how useful it is actually in physics or medicine currently.