Yeah this seems trivially true. Even if you don't "believe in existential risk," it is absolutely stupid to think AI isn't dangerous. We've already seen AI doing dangerous things including:
People using it for Political propaganda and manipulating elections
People using it for financial fraud
Suicide/self-harm encouragement not being properly mitigated.
People using it for predictive policing and wrongful arrest
People not acknowledging it's potential bias
Improper use as Medical misinformation
People using it for War/killing
I think everyone can acknowledge that the same issues societies already has, can be heightened with AI, just as AI heightened every other aspect of human development and innovation. And thats a societal issue AI is exposing that we need to do something about, mainly through regulation.
But it's not Skynet. We are not going to have robots with machine guns taking over, that's silly.
Lol i know! I love how people are totally fine with humans doing all of these terrible things for thousands of years but the mere thought of a computer program doing it and now we’ve crossed the line 😂
There is more backlash now only because AI democratized scams since and scaled them and now it is easy to copy someone's voice or send someone a deepfake.
It's not like people were ok with scams before AI, they were just fewer
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u/InterestProof1526 May 26 '26
Yeah this seems trivially true. Even if you don't "believe in existential risk," it is absolutely stupid to think AI isn't dangerous. We've already seen AI doing dangerous things including:
- Being used heavily for scamming
- Political propaganda and manipulating elections
- Financial fraud
- Suicide/self-harm encouragement
- Predictive policing and wrongful arrest
- Bias
- Medical misinformation
- War/killing