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Dacadey t1_je4zamp wrote

The are no ways to regulate AI development. It was possible with nuclear weapons, because the massive scale of projects requiring hundreds of thousands of people and huge money injection made it possible to stop other countries from developing in by the leading superpowers.

In contrast, AI development can be done literally anywhere on a far lower budget. It's simply not possible to control the advances, that can also spread through the internet like the plague

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je5tliy wrote

Exactly. You can try to regulate how its used, but its impossible to regulate how its developed. Whatever is expensive to do now will be trivial in a few years.

At any rate these calls are mostly out of either ignorance or a desire of control.

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azuriasia t1_je62llo wrote

Punitively taxing automation would adequately prevent the most negative effects of ai from coming to pass.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je63h00 wrote

Of all the ideas in the history of humanity, taxing improvement in productivity is the dumbest.

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azuriasia t1_je6437x wrote

Governments' jobs are to serve the citizenry, not just the top 1%. This "improvement" will claim millions of careers while allowing the super rich to oppress the lower classes in a wah never before seen. If you're not already a multi millionaire, you're not in their club.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je64hfr wrote

You drank way much kool aid, kid. You should take a break from social media.

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azuriasia t1_je65llo wrote

You have your head buried in the sand. The economy needs a chance to brace for millions unemployed.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je6648p wrote

Its your first time, innit? Ive heard that every decade since the 70s. A productive society is a society that can afford a lot of goods and services and thus improvements in productivity leads to higher employment, not less.

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azuriasia t1_je66kf1 wrote

There has never been anything close to AI.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je67b7b wrote

There had never been anything like the tractor, the computer, the internet...

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azuriasia t1_je67mhy wrote

And none of them had the immediate job displacing potential that ai does.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je688hj wrote

The fact that you dont still work 120 hours a week in a field says otherwise.

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azuriasia t1_je68rcg wrote

People work more hours now than medieval peasants. Your analogy is laughably achronistic

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johnkfo t1_je6n602 wrote

not if the benefits of automation/AI still outweigh not automating and you'd have to get to ridiculous levels of taxation

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azuriasia t1_je6ocd9 wrote

I'm talking taxes that would make any work not done by a human being completely unprofitable, maybe even at a loss. Real emphasis on the punative there.

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johnkfo t1_je6plrq wrote

might as well just ban it then, which isn't going to happen. or AI developers will move to countries with low or no tax and your country will become irrelevant in terms of economy and technological advancement

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azuriasia t1_je6pww9 wrote

Let those countries implode under the weight of 80% unemployment.

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nova_demosthenes t1_je650ze wrote

World-shattering technology always has to be worked with. You are right that it can't be undone.

I think it's a large and clear mirror that we are constructing that, faced with a a new other, we immediately assign it the same flaws and risks we see in ourselves and thus fear that these will come from it just as these flaws come from one another.

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