• Sgagvefey@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Though it sounds extreme, there are a lot of smart people in the AI community who truly believe AI could end humanity.

    No. There are not.

    Believing anything resembling current tools has the capacity to end humanity in incontrovertible proof that you are not smart.

    • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      AI takes a crazy amount of power, which is largely fueled by the same fossil fuels that are indeed killing us off and destroying our habitat, which will kill even more of us, so AI could definitely indirectly kill off humanity.