[ExI] AI and Eliezer

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 8:27 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 6:32 PM Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 9:13 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> A point I don't think Eliezer considers is that humans are dangerous
> >> Humans are selected for wars, from circulating xenophobic memes when
> >> it looks like resources will get tight to irrational optimism about
> >> winning wars.
> >>
> >> At least AIs have not been selected for such traits.
> >
> > Do you think majority humans will react to AI in their daily lives as
> 'stealing jobs' (an artificial scarcity resource) except instead of
> stealing undocumented workers' work, AI is going to take most of the
> so-called knowledge work.  Doctors will be gone before nurses, but soon
> after the patients will also adjust to bedside carebots.
>
> You are not thinking of nanotech medicine which can cure anything
> while you are walking around.
>

Because such nanotech medicine is unlikely to become available to the
general public within the next few (say, 5) years.  Many people worry that
AI will replace a significant number of knowledge workers in that timeframe.

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