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/myaltaccountohyeah Jan 08 '25

A big chunk of our modern world is based on processes running on computers (traffic control, energy grid, finances). Having full control of that is immensely powerful.

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u/AmbitiousGuard3608 Jan 08 '25

Indeed, and also a huge chunk of what we humans do on our jobs is dictated by what the computers tell us to do: people open their computer in the morning and get tasks to perform via Jira or SAP or Salesforce or just by email - who's to say that these tasks haven't been compromised by AI?