AI doomerism has some similarity to Abrahamic God worship: AI is a vengeful God, who will doom all humans with catastrophe if the instructions of the high priests are not followed. Our original sin is recklessly allowing AI to get this far, and our salvation is to follow the instructions of the priests and their written proscriptions to stop AI, before it smites all of humanity with robot locusts or some such.

The priesthood must carefully manage or "worship" AI in secret chambers only for the chosen few). AI, if it is to exist at all, must be carefully studied or placated by the priesthood, and most importantly the priesthood must be entrusted to keep it secure with the urgency of the eternal fate of humanity.

#ai #aiDoomerism #doomerism #cult

Do you want to resist the AI hype?

@Iris has a great collection of podcasts, articles, books and papers.

#aihype #aidoomerism #chatgpt #tescreal

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/29/critical-lenses-on-ai/

Do you want to resist the AI hype?

@Iris has a great collection of podcasts, articles, books and papers.

#aihype #aidoomerism #chatgpt #tescreal

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/29/critical-lenses-on-ai/

Never forget what the #superintelligence #AIDoomerism and #xrisk stuff really is about: keeping decisive technology under corporate control.

They are loosing to the opensource sector and they know it. So now the propaganda is set to overdrive, with claims that real Open AI, by the people, for the people, under democratic control and not used to enrich some plutocrat is a world ending risk.

We are coming for your means of production. Be afraid of that.

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIDoomerism: "AI Doomerism is becoming mainstream thanks to mass media, which drives our discussion about Generative AI from bad to worse, or from slightly insane to batshit crazy. Instead of out-of-control AI, we have out-of-control panic.

When a British tabloid headline screams, “Attack of the psycho chatbot,” it’s funny. When it’s followed by another front-page headline, “Psycho killer chatbots are befuddled by Wordle,” it’s even funnier. If this type of coverage stayed in the tabloids, which are known to be sensationalized, that was fine.

But recently, prestige news outlets have decided to promote the same level of populist scaremongering: The New York Times published “If we don’t master AI, it will master us” (by Harari, Harris & Raskin), and TIME magazine published “Be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike” (by Yudkowsky).

In just a few days, we went from “governments should force a 6-month pause” (the petition from the Future of Life Institute) to “wait, it’s not enough, so data centers should be bombed.” Sadly, this is the narrative that gets media attention and shapes our already hyperbolic AI discourse.

In order to understand the rise of AI Doomerism, here are some influential figures responsible for mainstreaming doomsday scenarios. This is not the full list of AI doomers, just the ones that recently shaped the AI panic cycle (so I‘m focusing on them)."

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/the-ai-doomers-playbook/