I have a hammer, I could build a shed with it or I could murder someone with it. Should the inventors of hammers way back when, have prepare a risk assessment of the likely impact of their invention and taken appropriate action? Or is the problem with me and my potentially deranged use of a hammer? The underlying problem expressed in this article is fear. Fear of the unknown future, which was ably expressed over a hundred years ago in Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein. The book has never been out of print as, much like horror movies, people love being scared, in a safe sort of way. Humans cant make monsters, dinosaurs are extinct, and computers just do what they are programmed to do by humans—they are just another tool for our use, not the end of humanity. The article has no basis in fact and is therefore a work of fiction. I’m not scared of my hammer and no body should be scared of AI.
If you really want to make the world a better place, I suggest that more time is devoted to finding out why someone would use a hammer or AI for destructive use, or more relevant to the present, why we continue to use fossil fuels, when we know it is wrecking our only home ie planet earth.
I have a hammer, I could build a shed with it or I could murder someone with it. Should the inventors of hammers way back when, have prepare a risk assessment of the likely impact of their invention and taken appropriate action? Or is the problem with me and my potentially deranged use of a hammer? The underlying problem expressed in this article is fear. Fear of the unknown future, which was ably expressed over a hundred years ago in Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein. The book has never been out of print as, much like horror movies, people love being scared, in a safe sort of way. Humans cant make monsters, dinosaurs are extinct, and computers just do what they are programmed to do by humans—they are just another tool for our use, not the end of humanity. The article has no basis in fact and is therefore a work of fiction. I’m not scared of my hammer and no body should be scared of AI.
If you really want to make the world a better place, I suggest that more time is devoted to finding out why someone would use a hammer or AI for destructive use, or more relevant to the present, why we continue to use fossil fuels, when we know it is wrecking our only home ie planet earth.