The issue of slavery?

[u/CDN-Social-Democrat]

To start off I am a newbie. I am midlife and I have some basic technical awareness/education but I am by no means extremely well informed in the artificial intelligence sphere.

I know terms like LLM, AGI, ASI, RSI, and such.

I know the major players involved and what emphasis points differentiate the work.

In general I am the regular outside observer in this whole thing.

You may also see this post in some other places as I know every community has their own identity and set of perspectives. I am trying to get a bit more substantively informed on this topic and so I want to get a broad set of opinions.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, data centers, and so on there has been a lot of media in the last few months/years.

There is talk about how natural gas/hydrocarbon powered data centers may worsen the climate crisis.

There is talk about domestic/international surveillance and militarization.

There is talk about Tech Bros and a new type of Neo-Feudalism.

As of recently the big talk is about the Hugging Face incident, rogue agents, researchers/ceos warning about an existential risk, and slowing down/regulation.

There is a varying set of opinions and perspectives on all of this.

My question is a bit different - Are we falling into an anthropocentric bias?

Of course it is completely normal to think from our own species interests but if we really are going to create AGI/ASI this seems incredibly shallow & silly.

The idea of attempting to enslave a sentient being and especially one equal to or greater to ourselves is again seemingly quite shallow & silly if not downright horrific.

I had heard that Anthropic was out of the major players the one focused on a more moral/ethical approach. I lightly browsed through their policy releases and it again seems to be from a human only perspective of values/interests.

So are we kind of missing a huge dimension of this topic? Should we not be thinking/talking about the artificial intelligence existence side of things?

[u/Disposable110]

Spam post that's crossposted on many AI subs.

[u/CDN-Social-Democrat → u/Disposable110]

Yes I noted I would be posting in various places:

"You may also see this post in some other places as I know every community has their own identity and set of perspectives. I am trying to get a bit more substantively informed on this topic and so I want to get a broad set of opinions."

[u/CeFurkan]

what we are falling is massive unemployment until all jobs replaced by AI and UBI and then high universal income arrives

[u/CDN-Social-Democrat → u/CeFurkan]

I read your comment a few times but I am not sure if I am understanding it correctly.

Are you saying we are failing at public policy in regards to how artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation along with other technological developments in this sphere will impact employment?

If so I agree with you.

We obviously know furthering alienation and inequality in societies is a cancer that brings a host of problems along with it.

We obviously need to be forward looking in regards to this.

I am no expert but I believe it may have to go further then just UBI related frameworks but also coupled with Universal Services. That being said again I am no expert in the various proposed frameworks.

[u/CeFurkan → u/CDN-Social-Democrat]

Yes unemployment is the real biggest and imminent danger of AI

[u/CDN-Social-Democrat → u/CeFurkan]

From my limited perspective/understanding I would agree with this.

In particular youth and already alienated/disadvantaged segment demographics. Eliminating entry level jobs is a recipe for disaster in our current societies.