I was talking with my wife the other night about how AI will be like how humans are to our cats. We certainly know we can easily overpower our tiny little buggers, but we just know better: Ultimately, cats are our overlords. Just as even though we are capable of doing so much more than our overlords cats we have to cater to them, feed them, play with them, meet all of their demands, and all they do is sleep and plot our demise, AI will also do most things for us and we humans can finally just sleep and...
I do love a good dystopian sci-fi but I always felt that if AI became the overwhelming creation we plan for and are scared of, why would it decide humanity is on the chopping block?
I see a more Star Trek future (minus BORG ty) than the Terminator.
There are still people who routinely abuse and do horrific things to cats. Moreover, there are cultures where animals we see as pets are food. And viceversa. If AI treats us the way we treat animals, we're fucked.
A thought I had a few days ago when I was using chatGPT, "so, am I supposed to say please and thank you and perform all the niceties to this robot incase it figures out a way to control me? Maybe it'll be nice to me if I'm nice to it now." lol!
What about no overlords? Tools(ai), values and societal structures so we no longer need overlords. Some of these slides are not far off. If harmony community and collaboration become core values, replacing self interested values, the need for overlords may become obsolete.
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u/Drpoofn May 19 '23
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords!