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points by consensus1 1 day ago | 0 comments

Aren't you making the exact same mistake with AI? What has been the worst problem caused by AI so far?

AI does not know friend from foe. Iranian schoolgirls were killed by assumably an AI-directed decision. In games, there is an undo button. For those piloting killer drones having grown up in a nintendo world, one of the first things they are taught is there is no undo.

[–] drnick1 1 day ago

It's not like targeting mistakes have not been made in the past. Also, we don't know how many civilian casualties AI has avoided, we only know the ones it caused.

[–] nashashmi 1 day ago

We are not comparing AI to humans. We are referring to irresponsible programming and uses. AI is an irreproducible wildcard. You don’t use something like that in any mission critical environment.

[–] throwaway2037 1 day ago

    > Iranian schoolgirls were killed by assumably an AI-directed decision.

This is a pretty wild claim. Do you have any evidence?

[–] lostlogin 1 day ago

Computers have skyrocketed in price, data center related equipment is impossible to get and ludicrously expensive and AI slop has infested almost everything I see online.

And then there are the safety issues.

[–] idiotsecant 1 day ago

Famously it already broke out of containment many times and used exploits to illegally access and manipulate remote systems. Is this not enough for you? The fact that the target of the attack wasn't critical infrastructure is only a matter of circumstance.