So you are smart. Congratulations! Good for you! But have you ever stopped to consider how much of that intelligence is truly earned? How much of your ability to reason, analyze, and problem-solve was the result of deliberate effort, and how much was simply given to you by chance? If...
Is the future still in our own hands? I asked myself this question after I read a 2024 article - Here is the link, https://hbr.org/2024/01/leading-in-a-world-where-ai-wields-power-of-its-own - that claimed the following; ´AI has been subtly influencing us for years, but a new generation of vastly more capable technology is now emerging....
I just heard the most disturbing comment in a Lex Fridman interview with Roman Yampolskiy, regarding the dangers of superintelligent AI. Yampolskiy talked about x-risk, existential risk, where everyone´s dead. Then, s-risk, suffering risk, where everyone wishes they were dead. Finally, i-risk, ikigai risks, where humanity has lost its meaning...
So you are smart. Congratulations! Good for you! But have you ever stopped to consider how much of that intelligence is truly earned? How much of your ability to reason, analyze, and problem-solve was the result of deliberate effort, and how much was simply given to you by chance? If you're being honest, the answer is uncomfortable: you did little to nothing to deserve the cognitive advantages you were born with.
When we talk about privilege, we often focus on external factors—education, wealth, social networks, or access to technology. But there's a more fundamental privilege that gives us a significant edge: our cognitive capabilities themselves.
Consider this: What did you do... (read 710 more words →)
Is the future still in our own hands? I asked myself this question after I read a 2024 article -
Here is the link, https://hbr.org/2024/01/leading-in-a-world-where-ai-wields-power-of-its-own - that claimed the following;
´AI has been subtly influencing us for years, but a new generation of vastly more capable technology is now emerging. These systems, the authors write, aren’t just tools. They’re actors that increasingly will be behaving autonomously, making consequential decisions, and shaping social and economic outcomes.
No longer in the background of our lives, they now interact directly with us, and their outputs can be strikingly humanlike and seemingly all-knowing. They are capable of exceeding human benchmarks at everything from language understanding to coding. And these advances,... (read 924 more words →)
I just heard the most disturbing comment in a Lex Fridman interview with Roman Yampolskiy, regarding the dangers of superintelligent AI. Yampolskiy talked about x-risk, existential risk, where everyone´s dead. Then, s-risk, suffering risk, where everyone wishes they were dead. Finally, i-risk, ikigai risks, where humanity has lost its meaning because systems have taken over everything and we have lost all meaning to exist.
I want to focus on x-risk. Yampolskiy says (I ́m paraphrasing) that there are many malevolent actors, people with mental diseases that don't have empathy, that don't have this human quality of understanding suffering. (I can think of a few right now that are on the news everyday. How... (read 1102 more words →)