I’ve been reading LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media and at the end the authors bring out the problem of AI. It’s interesting in that they seem to be pointing to a clear AI risk that I never hear (or have not recognized) mentioned in this group. The basic thrust is about how the deep fake capibilities can allow an advanced AI to pretty much manufacture realities and control what people think is true or not so can contol both political outcomes and even incentives towards war and other hostilities both within a society and between countries/societies/cultures/races. (Note, that is a very poor summary and follow a lot of documenting the whole leadup from social media and internet failing to realize the original views how they would lead to a better world where good ideas/truth drive out bad and lies/falsehoods and has in fact enable the bad and promoted lies and falsehoods. The AIs just come in at the end and may or may not be working in the interests of some group, e.g., Russia, China, the USA, ISIS...)
But this (the book itself is a documentation of the very real, and obervable risks and actual events) area holds very real, (largely) observable outcomes that lead to significant harms to people. As such I would think it might be a ripe area for those feeling that the general public is not grasping the risk (which to me do often seem rather sci-fi and Terminator/Matrix type claims that most people will just see as pure fiction and pay little attention to).
I’ve been reading LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media and at the end the authors bring out the problem of AI. It’s interesting in that they seem to be pointing to a clear AI risk that I never hear (or have not recognized) mentioned in this group. The basic thrust is about how the deep fake capibilities can allow an advanced AI to pretty much manufacture realities and control what people think is true or not so can contol both political outcomes and even incentives towards war and other hostilities both within a society and between countries/societies/cultures/races. (Note, that is a very poor summary and follow a lot of documenting the whole leadup from social media and internet failing to realize the original views how they would lead to a better world where good ideas/truth drive out bad and lies/falsehoods and has in fact enable the bad and promoted lies and falsehoods. The AIs just come in at the end and may or may not be working in the interests of some group, e.g., Russia, China, the USA, ISIS...)
But this (the book itself is a documentation of the very real, and obervable risks and actual events) area holds very real, (largely) observable outcomes that lead to significant harms to people. As such I would think it might be a ripe area for those feeling that the general public is not grasping the risk (which to me do often seem rather sci-fi and Terminator/Matrix type claims that most people will just see as pure fiction and pay little attention to).