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Ask HN: How do you (AI researchers) convince yourselves that AI isn't terrible?

1 points by l2silver ↗ HN
Obvious parallels with developing nuclear weapons in the forties. I guess one argument is now, if you don't do it, someone else will, but are there AI researchers who actually believe at this point that this is good for humanity.

Because I don't see it. I'll take all the diseases and crt monitors for whatever advances AI is promising at this point.

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spottedmarley
Researcher here! Let me dig in and find out all about this "AI" thing.. ...researching... hmmmm.. ...more researching... oh god... ...even more researching... oh dear god no.. this can't be... ...checks twitter-x... Oh my god everybody! We're all gonna die!!! Run!! RunnNNnnN!!!
theendisney
We have people study hard so that they can fill a seat in some corporate machine. The salaries reflect how hard the work is for a mere mortal and/or how scarce the supply.

We ended up with a system where organizing the work is many times more work and more expensive than the actual work. You have to charge 90 them send a worker who earns 20... before taxes! LOL They go shopping and pay 15 for something that costs 4, 3 of which is admin overhead.

They might not be useless jobs today but it would be great to make it so. Who knows, it might finally free up enough human intelect to change the rat race.

Havent you noticed humans are terrible at everything too? Its a miracle how far we've made it.

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JohnnyLarue
Because some of it isn't. Hard to imagine, I know.