AI Dystopia in balance, in context
Written by Travis Kellerman
Michael K. Spencer requested an analysis of his dystopian predictions of an AI controlled globe and future. Let’s start with the assumptions and assertions:
…there’s increasing evidence [that] AI:
- Accelerates wealth inequality
Yes, just as software has in the Internet and mobile eras. If you’re not struggling to survive, you can do more with less. You don’t need to own a factory, just gather some coders and laptops around a kitchen table. Then you capture that advantage first, use old-new money to hyper-charge new monopoly plays and claim “disruption” — even if it means delusions of “revolutionizing urban transportation” by putting neo-hipsters on motorized scooters.
nterconnection technology also opens up access. The mere fact that we are able to consider a “global AI” phenomena speaks to the power of the Internet to harness our collective human intelligence — the greatest intelligence we have ever known. Nick Bostrom, the king of well-researched and technical AI dystopia, agrees it rivals any other form of artificial intelligence theorized to be created.
It’s proven, it’s a tool we don’t t know how to use or control properly, how to compliment each others’ individual intelligences — to add them up as a sum of a cooperative, hive-brain power instead of different sections battling each other like an auto-immune disease.
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