• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Okay, well, if everyone had access to an AGI, anyone could design and distribute a pathogen that could wipe out a significant portion of the population. Then again, you’d have the collective force of everyone else’s AI countering that plot.

    I think that putting that kind of power into the hands of everyone shouldnt be done lightly.

    • Hanabie@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      There are papers online on how to design viruses. Now to get funding for a lab and staff, because this is nothing like Breaking Bad.

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      1 year ago

      I would say the risk of having AI be limited to the ruling elite is worse, though - because there wouldn’t be everyone else’s AI to counter them.

      And if AI is limited to a few, those few WILL become the new ruling elite.

      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        And people would be less likely to identify what AI can and can’t do if we convince ourselves to limit our access to it.