The Real AI Threat?

Fri Dec 11 17:30:46 UTC 2020

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 9:25 AM Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
wrote:

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> (The point being:  We don't have to wait for "real" AI to see many of the
> dangers that folks fictionalize about - we are already seeing those dangers
> from mundane software - and it's only going to get worse while people are
> looking elsewhere.)
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> Miles Fidelman
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> Well put. No matter what you call it, algorithms are already dangerous and
can be unpredictable. People have a tendency to not want to make hard
choices and will often defer to computations or calculations.

Recommended reading on the topic:
https://smile.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-Inequality/dp/0553418815
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