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I’m going to be honest, I’m not confident in the future of AI and think it would’ve been ultimately better if it weren’t invented to begin with.
I know that it can have genuinely incredible applications that would benefit humanity as a whole, namely healthcare, accident prevention (like with airplanes, ships, shuttles, workplace related, etc.), and weather/natural disaster predictions. I’d love if that were all that it could do.
But I’ve also seen AI in warfare, surveillance, and policing used to seriously harm innocent people. Employers are already using AI to unfairly filter people out of jobs, and I believe black rock also uses AI to buy up properties. Not to mention that jobs like illustrators, writers, musicians, etc will all inevitably be replaced by their employers looking to consolidate workplace power from unions and increase profit margins.
Boycotting AI art is one way to slow down its growth that I can think of, but what else can be done?
It needs to be regulated and curbed before it’s too late.
This isn’t a conversation about AI so much as it is about computers in general. Everything has been computerized, we’ve been living in the aftermath of that for decades now. What they’re calling “AI” is just newer computer programmes. Which, isn’t to say any of what you’ve outlined is wrong – all that is and has been a problem for a while now. I believe keeping in mind that these are just programmes running on computers gives us a clearer picture of what we’re dealing with.
…for example, computers are fragile as hell. Gotta keep them away from water from dust from magnets from electromagnetic radiation from static charges from too much voltage from not enough voltage… and on top of that, a lot of modern software (and even some hardware!) is completely bunk without network access.