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Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can't be trusted to guarantee AI safety (apnews.com)

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Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can't be trusted to guarantee AI safety::An artificial intelligence company executive told the first U.N. Security Council meeting on AI’s threats to global peace that the handful of big tech companies leading the race to commercialize AI can’t be trusted to guarantee the safety of systems we don’t yet understand and that are prone to “cha

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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This has been the case for every new technology invented since before the Industrial Revolution.

Cotton gin: further proliferation of chattel slavery in the American south
Steam engine: coal barons using child labour and Pinkertons to extract basically forced labour
Oil: oil companies purchasing legislatures with bulk discount, climate change
Sewing machine: sweatshops
Airships: lax safety standards, giant inflammable hydrogen ballons
Electricity: 5,000 cables haphazardly strung on every lightpole in the city
Telephone: monopolies charging ten zillion dollars for a long-distance call, eavesdropping, &c.
Computer: mass surveillance
Internet: spam emails
Web 2.0: corporate surveillance for advertising purposes
Web 3.0: NFT scams
AI: deepfake porn, rubbish AI "books" flooding Amazon

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Paper: tax documents

[–] Whey_Isolate@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Everything else you said is on-point, but I will not let you badmouth airships. Those things are cool as fuck and a lot of their bad rep comes from long-standing misconceptions (especially surrounding the Hindenburg disaster).
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