AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 2/6: Behavioral Modification
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Altering people for the worse using AI is easier than altering them for the better. Redefining what “Capital” means Narrow AIs and optimization algorithms of social media news feeds have already caused many adverse outcomes without being AGIs. When people talk about AI on Twitter or Less Wrong, they use manufacturing or job-replacement analogies as the core function of AI. This analogy imagines AI as a powerful extension of industrial capital, defined by its "ownership of the means of production." This 19/20th-century thought is becoming increasingly removed from the reality of capital today.
AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 2/6: Behavioral Modification
AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 2/6…
AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 2/6: Behavioral Modification
Altering people for the worse using AI is easier than altering them for the better. Redefining what “Capital” means Narrow AIs and optimization algorithms of social media news feeds have already caused many adverse outcomes without being AGIs. When people talk about AI on Twitter or Less Wrong, they use manufacturing or job-replacement analogies as the core function of AI. This analogy imagines AI as a powerful extension of industrial capital, defined by its "ownership of the means of production." This 19/20th-century thought is becoming increasingly removed from the reality of capital today.