The “Cancel ChatGPT movement” doesn’t appear to be mentioned in the article, but other outlets say hashtags like #CancelChatGPT are trending on X.

I think you’re right that stock trading has enabled a lot of bad and perhaps shouldn’t have been allowed. At least on a large scale beyond a single town or county. Paper certificates for money may have been a bad idea too. Even the use of a common currency like gold may have been a net negative. I think a barter system has positives over a common currency in that it requires people to work together and form communities.

We’ve seen it many times. TV, teflon, social media, cars, AI…

I think they will give us the cancer cure which may even be cheap, but it will come with lots of other downsides for society and your individual physical and mental health. Technology is like black magic that solves the problem you asked it to but gives you a thousand new issues that end up being worse than the original situation.

Genetic engineering every little detail could become dirty cheap, but it will still be terrible for humanity because it will remove diversity, we’d be messing with forces we don’t understand that could lead to diseases or greater population-wide susceptibilities and the government would also like to have its say on how your baby is made so that they will be a good little order follower

As well as the military contractors, insurance companies, big food, big media, big think tanks and consultancy, etc

Nuclear Gandhi was new to me. Gave me a LOL.

This is 100% true

No you appear to be recalling something you read incorrectly. The NSA was allegedly concerned Furbys could record sensitive conversations and they were banned from Fort Meade. The idea that they recorded sound was incorrect, but the concern wasn’t about Furbys learning or having artificial intelligence. Besides, bringing this up is a distraction from verifiable facts that computers can already identify targets in real time camera feeds and make decisions on whether to pursue and shoot them. You’re in denial my friend.

Someone didn’t read the news about the Pentagon threatening Anthropic because they want to use AI for fully autonomous weapons

Maybe next they’ll make you prove you’re over 18 to buy a computer at the store. Maybe put them behinds safety glass too since they’re so dangerous. Or put them on the top shelf where kids can’t reach.

Arguably if you give AI access to the nuclear launch system then it can cause human extinction “by itself”. Every “by itself” extinction scenario requires some pre-existing circumstances so this has a right to qualify as one of those scenarios.

Contrary to before we now have general purpose AIs that can understand all types of scenarios and make decisions in them. This means they can cause extinction with less human guidance. And there’s no strong reason to doubt AI could become as intelligent and autonomous as humans, probably in a decade or two. Then it’s pretty much bye bye humans.

TIL

But does it have Old Zealand?

Yeah this sounds awful. Your username is apt for this. Reason #5563 to hate AI.