Many users slammed the AI 2040 report as a naive push for authoritarian surveillance that ignores AI benefits and repeats past power grabs.
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@ramez They also simply ignore the benefits of AI entirely when considering delaying AGI from 2030 to 2040. About 700 million people will die, social security will run out, and the economy might be 10-50% smaller. AI is the current Plan A to fix these with no plan B.
@Dan_Jeffries1 Funny how the existential threat changes every decade, but the proposed solution remains the same: give the state more surveillance power.
@ramez AI safety tools meant to curb risks could instead enable authoritarian surveillance and erode freedoms.
@ramez Very well said.
Opponents argue the recommendations would create authoritarian state controls.
@ramez Agreed
@ramez well said
AI 2040 and other similar policy proposals for dystopian AI control are evil. If I had the time machine in Terminator, I would send every one of these people back in time to live in Stalin's Russia, or Mao's China, or Berlin with the Wall and then bring them back after a year cured of their stupidity. Let's just make it clear. As Ramez says, the proposal warns against centralization of AI by proposing radically dangerous authoritarian surveillance powers that are infinitely more dangerous than the fake danger they propose to defend against. We've reached a point where people who spent too much time huffing glue and reading Dune or watching Terminator and thinking it was a documentary are now proposing some of the most dangerous and horrific policies imaginable. They must be stopped from infecting politicians with this kind of logic disease. Their policies cannot be taken seriously unless you have no sense of history, no sense of the actual dangers of history, no sense of what handing draconian powers to governments will do to a society, and frankly, no critical thinking ability or self awareness whatsoever. I don't care that the "authors mean well." Dunning Kruger policies get no pass from me because someone means well.
Many users slammed the AI 2040 report as a naive push for authoritarian surveillance that ignores AI benefits and repeats past power grabs.
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@ramez well said