Researcher Alex Imas says formulating positive AI scenarios is harder than detailing concrete risks and cites a 1943 essay on how utopias focus on absent current problems
Alex Imas replied in a thread quote-tweeted by Andy Masley.
#1735Andy Masley@ANDYMASLEYWe need a lot more hands on deck thinking about this
Sriram Krishnan@sriramkSomething to think about : what does life look like 25 years from now if AI continues to improve. I don’t think any AI community ( broad tech industry , academia , various timelines predictions) have done a great job articulating a positive long term future for humanity and what it means for the institutions and traditions that a lot of the world holds dear.
@sriramk I think it's partly because it's much more difficult to come up with gains that are vague and unknown vs. losses of things that we have and are concrete. This quote from Orwell about utopias is apt:
Sriram Krishnan@sriramkSomething to think about : what does life look like 25 years from now if AI continues to improve. I don’t think any AI community ( broad tech industry , academia , various timelines predictions) have done a great job articulating a positive long term future for humanity and what it means for the institutions and traditions that a lot of the world holds dear.