Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a “technical hydrogen bomb” | “we are all completely f**ked”::undefined

  • Donkter@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Christ, a good litmus test is that anyone who says "I’m afraid of AI because…’ and then describes the end of modern civilization/the world can be dismissed.

    This man’s argument is literally “you could ask AI how to turn off all the electricity in Britain and then it would do it.” Goddam.

    • rosymind@leminal.space
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      11 months ago

      I’m less afraid of the tech itself, and more afraid of how it can be weilded by power-hungry human beings. As long as it never has desires of it’s own, we’re fine