We don't need to be worried about an AI that's going to fuck over humanity.
We have politicians that fuck over humanity every single day, like it's their job, and they actually get paid the big bucks for it.
Annnd people actually vote and re-elect these same fuckers into power every few years. While the highlighted sentences above are true, the dangers of an advanced AI becoming sentient and taking control are unknown and should be expected to be orders of magnitude greater.
We do need to be worried about it!
I'm still thinking after (human made or initiated) developments we didn't worry about in the first place and
did not cause us huge problems afterwards.
You're free to participate, i couldn't remember any, yet.
The thing is that a sentient AI is something we've never experienced before, so there is no real precedent to refer to. To dismiss the dangers it can bring to humans is naive to say the least.
Exactly.
Humans just suck at economics, in the way of evaluating possible unwanted side- and longterm effects when planning to change parameters in a complex system. We're still just too much ape. Humans generally want to achieve something, but care less what they could fuck up by doing so (or: achieve what they didn't expect).
Nuclear fission was a great idea, offering a lot of possibilities, but nobody was looking at systematic consequences. We were way too optimistic, we are most times.
It's a lack of ability of networked thinking, we're still in the linear phase of the evolution of mind.
While the highlighted sentences above are true, the dangers of an advanced AI becoming sentient and taking control are unknown and should be expected to be orders of magnitude greater.
We do need to be worried about it!
We?
Does "we" include very (small elitist) group actively pursuing and making this AI shit and unleashing it on the world? Because they don't seem to care. Like at all.
Maybe take it up with them? Lol.
(Sorry, not trying to snark, but "concerned people" always seem to have the ire misplaced toward the wrong group. They always want to make it "the plebs problem")
The need to feel special is (almost) above all in a civilized human's life, at least as we know it.
These "elitists" also need something they can achieve to feel valuable. "Look mom, no hands!" (Good boy, have a cookie!)
Behind all that it's the Dopamine, it's what our brains crave for. Nobody has learned to take care how to balance and sustain Dopamine levels, so we're used to ramp it up, let it fall down, to ramp it up again. There's a little more to it, but i'm fucking tired and that's when i suck at explaining things, too. But you should get the idea to get a glance under the surface of human existence.