Ask HN: Why isn't AI viewed as a way to prevent humanity from going extinct?
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The number of (self-inflicted) existential threats facing Homo sapiens right now and all you come up with is "mass brain fog"?
AI won't solve human obstinacy, human entitlement, human greed, human short-sightedness, anthropocentric hubris, etc. I seriously doubt anything can, let alone a large language model.
AI won't solve human obstinacy, human entitlement, human greed, human short-sightedness, anthropocentric hubris, etc. I seriously doubt anything can, let alone a large language model.
Why not?
These are not new problems. They are ancient and different people have dealt with them with different levels of success. AI has access to all those strategies.
So maybe one day AI dawns Mr. Rogers persona to solve one problem and Abe Lincoln to solve another.
It can do it at scales no individual or group can, so there is potential to nudge the entire chimp troupe in directions never possible before, in ways that "will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills".
These are not new problems. They are ancient and different people have dealt with them with different levels of success. AI has access to all those strategies.
So maybe one day AI dawns Mr. Rogers persona to solve one problem and Abe Lincoln to solve another.
It can do it at scales no individual or group can, so there is potential to nudge the entire chimp troupe in directions never possible before, in ways that "will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills".
When airplanes were invented, it was believed they would end wars. Really.
AI tools are tools, like typewriters and airplanes. Problems that people cause in the world (and can but don't fix) are just that: people problems.
AI tools are tools, like typewriters and airplanes. Problems that people cause in the world (and can but don't fix) are just that: people problems.
If you put it to the vote across all species in the world, humanity going extinct would be OK.
I think most AI boosters suggest exactly this?
If AI is already doing most people's jobs by then, then there will be a greater chance that humanity would be able to recover from this widespread decline in human intelligence.