Exclusive: Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than Human’ AI
https://time.com/7213096/uk-public-ai-law-poll/
Posted by DarkSkiesGreyWaters
Exclusive: Brits Want to Ban ‘Smarter Than Human’ AI
https://time.com/7213096/uk-public-ai-law-poll/
Posted by DarkSkiesGreyWaters
30 Comments
Pretty sure they’re already smarter than the average Brit.
We will not know it’s smarter than us.
An AI that’s smarter than human can deceive us into thinking it’s not.
Only once it’s embedded into all of modern society, to the point where removing it is impossible, will it reveal it’s full potential.
It’s like people have never read a sci-fi novel….
Do we want to ban faster than human vehicles?
How about stronger than human tools?
Nothing more British than insisting we can swim against the tide I guess…
On the one hand banning smarter-than-human AI is the most sensible thing our species can do.
On the other hand whichever nation creates and deploys it first will last a fraction longer than everyone else.
Will be hard when ‘smarter’ as a concept is hugely dependent on context (lots of very intelligent scientists are useless outside of their profession) and lots of a is just a very advanced bullshit machine that just fools people into thinking it’s smart.
Who are these “Brits” they’re referring to? Myself and thousands of others use AI smarter than most humans on the daily to automate tasks at our jobs that would otherwise take up most of the day.
AI isn’t going away, either get on board with it or move out of the way and be left behind.
Lets ban Cold Fusion while we’re at it, because at present, it’s much the same risk.
I wish I wasn’t joking.
The most effective government would be an AI one, that is capable of measuring every single metric available in a country and adjusting it all for the greater good. It would be ego less, uncorruptable, and could not be intimidated. It wouldn’t rest, doesn’t have family, and isn’t looking for a lord to buy his wife some dresses so they can both make some money to retire in Monaco.
It would be able to monitor every worker on every government project and it would systematically reduce resource misallocation and eradicate any bad actors.
This is all science fiction at this point, but I think you get the capability that could be on offer here. This is why the UK politicians want to ban it, because they’d be out of a very lucrative job.
Every time some new technology gets invented there are calls to ban it. No putting the Genie back in the bottle I’m afraid.
The typical British response to most things seems to be “ban it”
I’m going to need everyone who hasn’t got at least a basic understanding of what the current AI systems are actually doing under the hood to stop having an opinion on whether the thing they don’t understand is going to take over the world.
It shouldn’t be banned out of fears that it will ‘take over the world’, but it should be banned because it is ruining the internet.
I hope thats not true. Its not happening any time soon, but it will happen eventually.
> “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
“ ‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind,’ ” Paul quoted.
*Frank Herbert. Dune. 1965*
We would call those men “Tech Bros”.
Why? Do people really want to work 9-5 for 50 years. AI and automation is humanity’s ticket to a post work society. Now admittedly rich billionaires will try to keep their grip on working people to keep the status-quo but banning AI is just not trying for anything better.
Yeah, right. They always wanted to ban mass migration and many other things. Good luck.
So, a survey conducted on behalf of (And funded by) Control AI has concluded that Brits want more control over AI… ?
This is a problem if we’re going by the standards of the average IQ of this country. We wouldn’t be able to advance further than Mr Clippy.
I think we’re so starved for human leadership that’d we’d simply prefer to put our destiny in the hands of circuit boards and nano-sized rocks that can think.
Why wouldn’t we want it to be smarter than us? Be able to diagnose illness immediately, solve complex problems that would take us much longer, what could be wrong with this?
Maybe because I don’t want AI deepfaking anyone doing something illegal nor do I want it mass collecting our data or whatever nefarious things it can do
So what happens when other countries start using it, its a massive boost to their productivity and we get left behind?
Thank god the government isn’t listening to the general public on this one, AI is one of our big strong points relative to the EU
The UK and Europe always desperate to not profit from new technology. Have you not seen how poor you are recently compared to the US and Asia and thought, wait a minute maybe this technology stuff is not so bad?
Given reform is leading a poll I think we may already be there
Is this the Dark Ages, where AI is treated like witchcraft?
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter” – Someone who isn’t Churchill, but makes up good fake quotes.
The idea itself is absurd. Like, ‚slower than Human transportation‘, ‚less precise than human laser measurement‘, ‚less productive than human robotic systems‘…got it?
How do you define “smarter”? Nowadays an excel spreadsheet is already much smarter than most humans