In the context of SkyNet awareness day, I have seen several posts ridiculing the current AI and that it is too stupid to pose a danger to us.
I say: it is not intelligence that makes AI dangerous.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (shortly before the Nazis murdered him) wrote an interesting piece on stupidity and it’s dangers: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8616320-stupidity-is-a-more-dangerous-enemy-of-the-good-than
The danger of AI arises also from the amount of power we delegate to it. If we were to hand over control to nuke cities to the AI, it wouldn’t need any real intelligence to doom us all.
A stupid AI with authority is more dangerous than a hyperintelligent one without.
That is what worries me. We already delegate power over life and death to a stochastic parrot. Already it is e.g. allowed to deny medical care without human supervision. There it doesn’t need much brain to kill.
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