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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10961870
To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy::AI researcher Connor Leahy says regulating deepfakes is the first step to avert AI wiping out humanity
We should probably tease apart AGI and what I prefer to call “large-scale computing” (LLMs, SD, or any statistical ML approach
AGI has a pretty good chance of killing us all, or creating massive problems pretty much on its own. See: instrumental convergence.
Large-scale computing has the potential to cause all sorts of problems too. Just not the same kinds of problems as AGI.
I don’t think he sees LSC as an x-risk. Except maybe in the sense that a malicious actor who wants to provoke nuclear war could do so a bit more efficiently by using LSC, but it’s not like an LSC service is pulling a “War Games”.
What he’s proposing is:
And why not? LSC already poses big epistemic/economic/political/cultural problems on its own, even if nobody had any ambitions toward AGI.