I’m looking at this not from a CompSci point of view by a rhetoric point of view: Isn’t it much easier to make tenuous or even flat out wrong links between Climate Change and highly publicized Natural Disaster events that have lot’s of dramatic, visceral footage than it is to ascribe danger to a machine that hasn’t been invented yet, that we don’t know the nature or inclinations of?
I don’t know about nowadays but for me the two main pop-culture touchstones for me for “evil AI” are Skynet in Terminator, or HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (and by inversion—the Butlerian Jihad in Dune). Wouldn’t it be more expedient to leverage those? (Expedient—I didn’t say accurate)
I’m looking at this not from a CompSci point of view by a rhetoric point of view: Isn’t it much easier to make tenuous or even flat out wrong links between Climate Change and highly publicized Natural Disaster events that have lot’s of dramatic, visceral footage than it is to ascribe danger to a machine that hasn’t been invented yet, that we don’t know the nature or inclinations of?
I don’t know about nowadays but for me the two main pop-culture touchstones for me for “evil AI” are Skynet in Terminator, or HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (and by inversion—the Butlerian Jihad in Dune). Wouldn’t it be more expedient to leverage those? (Expedient—I didn’t say accurate)