[ExI] Thoughts on AI engineers

[Keith Henson]

(From Kris Holland)

I was chatting with Keith yesterday, and he was musing around that AI
has functionally added millions of engineers to the economy.  I said
software engineers, maybe.  It's nowhere near other fields, at least
being able to "do" the stuff reliably.  But that will come.  And think
about that.  With enough resources to start, a very small group of
individuals can build up to a 'company' with millions of engineers
internally.  That means that such a company could design, build and
test almost ANYTHING in virtuo, and only going to hardware for the
hardest bits and real world validation.

We're at a point where there are groups of people in the world who are
crafting the next mega-corporations.  We don't know who they are, we
don't know their intent, nor do we understand their moral compass.
That is just fucking terrifying, based on the aggregate actions of
humanity.  The only small hope is that geeks tend to be of high moral
standard unless coopted by nasties.

While these groups creating the next mega corporations is nothing new,
the difference is that these groups may go from nothing to google
scale in 2 years, and be bigger than all of the trillion dollar
companies in 4, and be functionally unstoppable.

Since now you can offload all of your competent talent to
jurisdictions with no regulation.

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Best wishes,

Keith