The immediacy with which any vision can be built is amazing. But the minute you let go of the direction and abandon responsibility, it eats you alive. Like a powerful dog.
I hope this idea makes the rounds. It's so terrible when you have to learn the idiosyncratic nomenclature of products.
It feels like it was already worse some years ago, but this piece spells it out.
And, ironically, gives the problem a name, which is a good thing in this case.
I had similar thoughts. But let's not overlook the information asymmetry, which contributed to the dissatisfaction. I don't want to live in a world which is controlled unilaterally, and intransparently by a group of people who assume they have a full picture of the situation and assume they understand moral completely, and also don't think it necessary to explain how they think so highly of themselves.
I realize now it was a stupid question, but the excellent refresher and ensueing discussion of edge cases was well worth the downvote someone felt compelled to leave, haha
„In general, a lot of the AI takes I see assert that AI will be able to assume the entire _responsibility_ for a given task for a person, and implicitly assume that the person’s _accountability_ for the task will just sort of…evaporate?“
25 years ago I also had a lot of trust in freedom on the internet, because it would just "route around censorship" and all that. I don't have the same confidence anymore.
Not hard to anticipate how this might play out. I can see how it first becomes the "official" resolver, which in a later steps is maybe "recommended," then required if you want certain kinds of funding or subsidy, or just serve public contracts, etc. Before you know it it's mandatory.
UBI is the weirdest thing. I'm certainly no fan of an economic system which casually threatens each of it's member with starvation and homelessness if personal misfortune strikes. But universal basic income is something different than support for someone in need. It has to be paid by someone, but this someone isn't ever mentioned. It's somehow the government. But government needs to be funded, too. So ultimately it's an attempt make everyone hand over responsibility of our lives and livelihoods to some opaque sustenance function, without thinking or asking any questions.
You are the gen. And you are also the slop.