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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 30

    Is it time to stop worrying and love AI? https://www.positive.news/2018/science/33476/is-it-time-to-stop-worrying-and-love-ai/ … via @positivenewsuk

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      2. msiDelicious  🍀‏ @msidelicious Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        It's time to kickass and chew bubblegum. Is Steven Pinker fan of sex robots ? 👍https://www.msidelicious.com/2017/10/the-last-job-on-earth.html …

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      1. Jide Alaga‏ @jide_alaga Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        I have no doubt that many good things can come from AI, but what about the existential risk posed by the alignment problem? Why shouldn't I be worried?

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      1. Coert Visser‏ @CoertVisser Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Dear Steven, I agree with you that AI is not likely to want to subdue humans. But might AI not be dangerous in another way? Might AI not become the most dangerous type of weapon for human beings who do want to subdue their fellow human beings?

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      1. Helen Wilson‏ @premodernism Jun 30
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      1. Climate Doom‏ @Tav_assoli Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Given how AI has so far been weaponized in cyberspace, and how FB, Twitter, and Youtube AIs were so effective in keeping users engaged but doing so in ways disastrous to democracy, I'd say we're off to a pretty bad start.

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      1. Pep Linden‏ @Pep_Linden Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        No. Not while its effects are the computing equivalent of blunt force trauma.

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      2. Joe Davison‏ @joeddav Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        It's not that AI stands to do no harm, but it stands to do much more good. Furthermore, the sci-fi-esque fearmongering about a singularity or terminator robot distracts from the more legitimate: privacy and the inference of sensitive information.

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      3. Joe Davison‏ @joeddav Jun 30
        Replying to @joeddav @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        While private information like religion, political orientation, and sexuality are not usually a recorded datapoint, machine learning (AI) is getting increasingly good at inferring that kind information from the data. It would be trivial to do for a big social network, for example

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      2. Spaceman Spiff‏ @Eluoecium Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        I feel like every time you share or write one of these articles, you are demonstrating a lack of understanding and an unwillingness to engage with this topic honestly. Do you really think the AI worriers are not aware of the huge potential benefits of AI?

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      3. Spaceman Spiff‏ @Eluoecium Jun 30
        Replying to @Eluoecium @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        To my knowledge, noone thinks the "doomsday" scenario is by any means a certainty. But it seems as if you are suggesting the "harm-free utopia" scenario IS a certainty. The latter view is more poorly reasoned. Advocate for cautious optimism, not reckless optimism.

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      4. Spaceman Spiff‏ @Eluoecium Jun 30
        Replying to @Eluoecium @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        I think your vested interests in the thesis of Enlightenment Now lead you to misconstrue their cautioning as pessimism. Due to your bias towards pessimism, you then oppose such caution, which I believe is catastrophically misguided.

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      1. Mat Schramm‏ @MatSchramm Jul 1
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Should we not be discussing UBI or other factors to negate a possible jobless and future for many? There are already and will be many awesome things created by AI.

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      1. Andrew Weber‏ @AmzakilWeber Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        One solution is to train AIs all about the goodness in life, e.i., the preservation and value of all life forms, strong or weak. Second, the frontline AI research must be in the hands of democratic people.

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      1. The President's Therapist™‏ @Whittle_Guy Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Either way: The trend with the age of digital computers has generally been that increasingly fewer people control the options and opportunities of increasingly greater numbers of people...

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      1. Dr Mark D'Arcy‏ @markoftheD Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        It's like with nuclear fission. The science was neutral. It was humans who decided/are deciding whether to use the technology for creating energy or for killing people...

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      1. Kid Brightwillow‏ @KidBrightwillow Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        Yes but AI has a very long way to go.

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      1. Kim Jong-lol‏ @KimJonglol1 Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        I’m a huge fan of @sapinker, but he’s extremely naive when it comes to AI.

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      1. Steve Green‏ @EstiviG Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker @PositiveNewsUK

        That’s like conflating all immigration, legal and illegal. The concern raised by people like Sam Harris is strong AI- superhuman, Godlike intelligence. Not a toaster that uses fuzzy logic.

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