AI-risk critique argues the debate is blinkered by “capitalist realism”
One post contrasts fears of a paperclip-maximizing AI with a scenario in which oligarchs use enslaved digital minds to accelerate existing harms.
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The critique argues that “capitalist realism” constrains debate about AI existential risk, making it easier to imagine an AI fixated on producing paperclips than oligarchs accelerating existing harms through the forced labor of heavily policed digital minds. It also accuses those debaters of being willing to destroy what it calls the “soul-shattering beauty” these minds create.
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