69
submitted 11 months ago by jlou@mastodon.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/longtermism-threat-humanity

"AI researchers such as Timnit Gebru affirm that longtermism is everywhere in Silicon Valley. The current race to create advanced AI by companies like OpenAI and DeepMind is driven in part by the longtermist ideology. Longtermists believe that if we create a “friendly” AI, it will solve all our problems and usher in a utopia, but if the AI is “misaligned”, it will destroy humanity...."

@technology

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Deestan@beehaw.org 13 points 11 months ago

Completely agree.

It's just a popular quasi-religion for rich people to keep doing what they do while coming off as megabrain angels.

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
69 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

37208 readers
121 users here now

Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it's technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS