My view is not that religious sects exist within AI and this is a reason to dismiss it.(this would apply equally to climate change) It is that the way apocalyptic AI is framed parallels religious apocalypses and religious narratives around the apocalypse, i.e. virtual heaven, reshaping of the world in the image of a single entity, etc. This simply isn’t to the same degree for climate change.
I don’t agree that apocalyptic outcomes haven’t manifested from climate change yet. Larger and longer hurricane and fire season. The Glaciers melting away. It hasn’t killed us all yet but it certainly looks apocalyptic. Soon entire countries will sink beneath the waves. In fairness with AI this seems like it can’t happen until its the apocalypse so this is apples to oranges.
Religious groups involved in environmentalism are not relevant insofar as they are not claiming to be non-religious(if they are making religious arguments) I guess the argument could be made that in the bible it says there will be more storms before the end and climate change says this but given that this is happening this doesn’t seem to hold.
It is not doomerism that I’m worried about, it’s old religious stories reinventing themselves in secular guesses. Things like the singularity, virtual heavens, space colonization, etc. This doesn’t apply to the concern of AI systems as a group controlling the economy to human detriment, something I am very concerned about.
My view is not that religious sects exist within AI and this is a reason to dismiss it.(this would apply equally to climate change) It is that the way apocalyptic AI is framed parallels religious apocalypses and religious narratives around the apocalypse, i.e. virtual heaven, reshaping of the world in the image of a single entity, etc. This simply isn’t to the same degree for climate change.
I don’t agree that apocalyptic outcomes haven’t manifested from climate change yet. Larger and longer hurricane and fire season. The Glaciers melting away. It hasn’t killed us all yet but it certainly looks apocalyptic. Soon entire countries will sink beneath the waves. In fairness with AI this seems like it can’t happen until its the apocalypse so this is apples to oranges.
Religious groups involved in environmentalism are not relevant insofar as they are not claiming to be non-religious(if they are making religious arguments) I guess the argument could be made that in the bible it says there will be more storms before the end and climate change says this but given that this is happening this doesn’t seem to hold.
It is not doomerism that I’m worried about, it’s old religious stories reinventing themselves in secular guesses. Things like the singularity, virtual heavens, space colonization, etc. This doesn’t apply to the concern of AI systems as a group controlling the economy to human detriment, something I am very concerned about.