I think we do, except, AI is just another (big, powerful, broad reaching implications) tech, like the internet, or computers, or nuclear fission, or spaceflight (artificial satellites), or powered flight, or the steam engine, or steel making, or circumnavigation capable sailing ships, or gunpowder…
None of those things switched on all at once in an instant, and AI has been creeping up on us for 60+ years. The past 2 or 3 have been a rather dramatic acceleration, fulfilling much of the promise and expectation of the past 50 years, but it’s still not as great as people imagine it could be - a lot like everything else on the list above. Most people “on the cusp” of those technologies had very different visions for what they would bring to the world compared with what actually happened.
Can we “shoot ourselves in the foot” with this one? Yes, but you could do the same with a rock in a bamboo pole with a little gunpowder, too.
These guys are terraforming the planet to be hostile to ours and many (most?) other species as a side effect of their technology.
Don’t need AI for that, and it’s not just cars and trucks, either - all transportation (including rail, ship, air) only accounts for 25-30% of fossil fuel consumption. Yeah, AI’s making it worse, so are people’s latest PS3-4-5 gaming consoles, and air conditioning, and steel foundaries, concrete, etc.
This is not some remote future possibility or granola eating hippie concern.
Yes, actually, it is. The granola eating hippies were, and still are, right.
I think we do, except, AI is just another (big, powerful, broad reaching implications) tech, like the internet, or computers, or nuclear fission, or spaceflight (artificial satellites), or powered flight, or the steam engine, or steel making, or circumnavigation capable sailing ships, or gunpowder…
None of those things switched on all at once in an instant, and AI has been creeping up on us for 60+ years. The past 2 or 3 have been a rather dramatic acceleration, fulfilling much of the promise and expectation of the past 50 years, but it’s still not as great as people imagine it could be - a lot like everything else on the list above. Most people “on the cusp” of those technologies had very different visions for what they would bring to the world compared with what actually happened.
Can we “shoot ourselves in the foot” with this one? Yes, but you could do the same with a rock in a bamboo pole with a little gunpowder, too.
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Don’t need AI for that, and it’s not just cars and trucks, either - all transportation (including rail, ship, air) only accounts for 25-30% of fossil fuel consumption. Yeah, AI’s making it worse, so are people’s latest PS3-4-5 gaming consoles, and air conditioning, and steel foundaries, concrete, etc.
Yes, actually, it is. The granola eating hippies were, and still are, right.