The idea of Artificial General Intelligence (“AGI”) posits a machine someday that has the ability to think like a human being. I wonder if the era of Artificial General Movement (“AGM”) isn’t a far more real and immediate issue?
There are impossibilities inherent in the models for what’s possible in AI oversight. Those impossibilities get more real and likely as the systems get smarter.
AI has never been risk of annihilation OR enjoyment of benefits. It’s BOTH. Pushmi-pullyu.
My gut tells me that we’re going to have to reimagine how (and to whom or what) we assign responsibility for actions long before AI achieves artificial general intelligence (“AGI”), which is something OpenAI’s Sam Altman is doggedly pursuing. The conversation should be about ethics and liability law, not technology.
It’s clear to me that the AI Industrial Complex wants the power and authority to determine those outcomes for us. They’ve convinced governments to be their enablers and sometimes willing partners.
The thing is, like sex, everything in the world is about technology except technology.
Tech toffs want to distract regulators. AI is about everything except tech.
Pretending that ethical questions don’t exist won’t make them go away. Sneers don’t replace thoughtful dialogue.
If we talked about AI differently, maybe we’d come up with different decisions about it.