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- AI - progress trap - interview Eric Schmidt
- meme - AI progress trap - high intelligence + low compassion = existential threat
Summary
- After watching the interview, I would sum it up this way. Humanity faces an existential threat from AI due to:
- AI is extreme concentration of power and intelligence (NOT wisdom!)
- Humanity still have many traumatized people who want to harm others - low compassion
- The deadly combination is:
- proliferation of tools that give anyone extreme concentration of power and intelligence combined with
- a sufficiently high percentage of traumatized people with
- low levels of compassion and
- high levels of unlimited aggression
- All it takes is ONE bad actor with the right combination of circumstances and conditions to wreak harm on a global scale, and that will not be prevented by millions of good applications of the same technology