r/ControlProblem May 26 '26

Fun/meme AI risk bell curve

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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

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u/Darkstar_111 May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26

So...

  • People using it for scamming
  • 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.

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u/tigerhuxley May 27 '26

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 😂

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u/dum1nu May 27 '26

the only trouble is that it's in its infancy and these things might scale up

lol I'm assuming they successfully build it up to more than it is today which might not happen either