This article compares a strawberry picking machine killing all of humanity to increase strawberry fields with current corporations. This is stupid because corporations do have guardrails both internally and externally from society. All of the mega Silicon Valley corporations are not expanding by murdering people. Even in the ones that are expanding in ways that people question (social media), they are filled with humans who actually think they are doing the right thing.
Humans with morals are still very much in the decision chain and there is obviously a lot of debate about their morals, but them being there makes such a vast difference that the comparison to the strawberry AI is completely invalid. The strawberry AI isn’t even considering humans.
The article then builds on that false comparison for the rest of the article so there isn’t much to gain from the rest of it.
You can make the same lazy comparison to a completely socialist, centralized decision making by a government optimizing for a single metric (voter approvals, poverty levels, whatever). It has nothing to do with capitalism or the economic system.
TLDR; article says mega corps are the same as dangerous AI because they make optimizations in favor of profit that some people disagree with.
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This article compares a strawberry picking machine killing all of humanity to increase strawberry fields with current corporations. This is stupid because corporations do have guardrails both internally and externally from society. All of the mega Silicon Valley corporations are not expanding by murdering people. Even in the ones that are expanding in ways that people question (social media), they are filled with humans who actually think they are doing the right thing.
Humans with morals are still very much in the decision chain and there is obviously a lot of debate about their morals, but them being there makes such a vast difference that the comparison to the strawberry AI is completely invalid. The strawberry AI isn’t even considering humans.
The article then builds on that false comparison for the rest of the article so there isn’t much to gain from the rest of it.
You can make the same lazy comparison to a completely socialist, centralized decision making by a government optimizing for a single metric (voter approvals, poverty levels, whatever). It has nothing to do with capitalism or the economic system.
TLDR; article says mega corps are the same as dangerous AI because they make optimizations in favor of profit that some people disagree with.