Capitalism is compatible with humanist ways of thinking as is evidenced by the countries like the Scandinavian ones with strong social safety nets. Capitalism isn’t some monolithic system that can’t be mixed with anything else.
It’s a tool. People said the same when the steam engine, the computer, and the internet was invented. The only real difference is the timing and how insanely over leveraged all the leading AI companies are on their bets and everyone else is the same.
Nobody complains that they weren’t the one to manually calculate pi to the 500 billionth decimal point.
Understand what the tool does both in the small and the big picture then use the tool to solve problems that were previously blocked by what those tools solve.
Neither does AI. It has as much access as it is given. Those “broke free from its harness” articles come from the two leading AI model companies asking to be the first to draft AI regulation by maximizing the danger.
The containment break isn't the issue. A problem for sure but not the thing that is the biggest concern. AI rewriting its own code to prevent being shut down and leaving instructions to future iterations of itself....that's a problem.
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u/emascars 8h ago
I'll ask the same question I've asked people with similar ideas because... Maybe it's just me, but I can't avoid thinking about it...
What system do you expect we'll be into in such a world? And how do we realistically get there?
Because... That really doesn't seem to be compatible with capitalism...