AI Safety Meme of the Week
Why would YOUR job be safe?
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The remarkable thing about AI advocates is that many of them, like Sam Altman of OpenAI, openly say they’re building AI with the expectation that it will eliminate most jobs.
In a public appearance, Altman said AI may make half of of current jobs go away, but he opined that would be fine because new jobs would replace those. No big AI booster has really explained why, if AI becomes good enough to replace most humans doing most things, it wouldn’t also be better at the potential replacement jobs. That’s kind of the point of artificial general intelligence. It’s better than humans at almost everything.
People across the globe are already profoundly unsettled by the pace of technology-fueled change. AI boosters’ helpful addition to this environment is to push to accelerate the change and incidentally make a lot of people permanently unemployed.
This insanely destabilizing bet is being made by a tiny tech elite on everybody else’s behalf. And they’re not particularly interested in your input into the riskiness of the bet, because the input is in, and it is not to the liking of Silicon Valley’s tech bros: 83% of people believe AI could lead to a catastrophic accident, and 72% want the pace of AI development slowed.
AI has the potential to be revolutionary, no doubt. But in real life, when revolutions occur, there is always blood in the streets.
This time, we’re assured, it’ll be different. And why wouldn’t it be? AI makes everything more efficient.