discussion In the future do you think AI will save the world or destroy it?

[SuperImp]

"In the future do you think AI will save the world or destroy it?"

Neither. It'll cause disruptions to industries, and changes to our way of life, but the world will keep on turning.

 

[highlrecommend]

humans are doing a great job at destroying everything, no need to blame AI

 

[F00F00]

neither
yes it may further the destruction of the world through environmental damage and overconsumption of resources for minimal short term benefit
but realistically, thats as a result of our species misuse of it, not the ai itself

 

[B2c]

Imo humanity is more likely to be wiped out by a random cosmic phenomenon or the effects of climate change/pollution catching up to us before an I have no mouth and I must scream or Roko's basilisk Style future comes to pass

 

[Alterios]

I think AI is a system which gives us no progress, it effectively builds off only prior knowledge without a sufficient enough data capacity or neural network to provide analysis which is rooted in our reality. With enough data you could simulate anything beyond human intelligence, quantum computing is the breakthrough that will likely shape the future of computer science if it is ever truly solved, but until then the answer is who knows.

 

[Shahawk]

I have the feeling that every times AI make a step forward humanity is taking a step backward. I see a lot of new technology everyday but nothing to advance us as human beings, only things making us more and more lazy and weak.

My opinion in the matter is that in a few years humans will become irrelevant if we continue on this path. Technology is nice to make our life easier but we should not forget what it means to be human and that a satisfying life is not a life without struggle.

What you guys think?

I see it as taking away the survivability and adaptability that has made humans survive anything we have ever been faced with. The youth of today would have no idea how to survive if the power and internet went down forever.

 

[i_patchy]

Major nations starting to train AI controlled combat drones so... the Terminator or even worse - I have no mouth but i must scream future is closer and closer. Could be funny, if sometime in the future, some omnipotent AM like AI would play with last remaining humans like if it was a shitty incest VN. Forcing them in to roles of landladies and tenants and than NTR'ing them to hell.

 

[crypt]

i think AI is just making us have less creative works and filling the gaps with slop, i don't know that its going to end the world, but its certainly making the arts full of slop content to sort through rather than just being able to engage.

 

[surmurnthur]

destroy, but only because too many people will trust it with important data they haven't sufficiently protected or backed up and at some point enough important things will be compromised or fucked up/deleted that it'll crash too much of global society to reasonably recover in a swift manner. it won't be destroying the world on purpose or because it's sentient and will want to take control of the world. if you think genAI can think for itself, is sentient, or will be anywhere near that in the next few decades...please think a bit longer on that and do some genuine research into the topic (and not by pop scientists/famous scientists who very often don't have expertise in the space or have been brain rotted by it because they've been close to it for too long and see it as basically a child).

i also say destroy because there is no possible future in which genAI will save the world. ever. it can't and it won't. especially not without human oversight, input and application. even when it's useful in things like the medical field, it still needs supervision and there are some very obvious cracks being ignored in regards to patient assessment viability and bias in inputs for the various programs to utilize.

The destroy is also more relevant when it comes to anything in the next 50+ years. If genAI does do anything significantly good enough to be considered saving the world, it will be after decades of concentrated effort on a particular effort. it will also be accompanied by endless human beings supporting it. because genAI can't be sentient. Although brains can be compared to computer systems or whatever, they ARE NOT the same and you can't program sentience into a machine, at least not in the ways almost everyone seems to believe, and not through genAI as we know it or envision it to be.

genAI is degrading the world.

Oh, and there's also the very VERY real aspect of genAI using so much resources and disrupting enough environments that it could be as simple as the world being destroyed in order to push genAI as viable when it isn't and never will be (not unless you start from scratch and with a specific goal and plan that's not rolling in mud and shit and then hoping you find some gold beneath the layers stuck on your skin.

 

[shiftystan1]

Everything will become Wall-E, hell there's even an AI called Dall-E. most humans will get lazier, more dependent on AI for everything, just like smartphones. While humans are a species that specifically thrives in making, advancing and using tools to improve every aspect of life they also need to understand the risks of what happens when you lose access to what you depend on.

 

[Worldwalker]

I think the topic line is false dichotomy. AI as we have it today will neither save humanity, nor destroy it.

 

[Hobobobb]

Yes!

 

[Vidilo]

Neither. AI is a tool that will change the world. Sure. But like other revolutions before it (Industrialization, Globalization, Computers, Internet), it will neither destroy nor save it. Just change the way human society operates.

And as for saving or destroying "The World" - well, that always depends on what you mean by that?
- physically destroying the world is really difficult. Nothing short of a dedicated, targeted use of all the world's nuclear arsenal or a really big 'planet killer' impact can achieve that. So it is very unlikely that any societal development will destroy the world. All technological and societal changes will just make it easier or harder to live in this world. Depending on whether you are on the beneficiaries side of the change or on the side that is disadvantaged by the change.
- The planet itself is quite resilient and has weathered worse than what we throw at it. Multiple times. Even life is incredibly resilient and will resurge, even after a near complete extinction.

- but if you are talking about the world's viability for humans, calling a decrease of the life of quality for humans 'destroying the world', then the world is beyond saving. With the continuous growth of the overall population and the increasing concentration of all resources in the hands of very few at the expense of all others, the overall quality of life, globally, has decreased and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

 

[xXxLunaxXx]

There was a game where the AI spiraled out of control; it developed weapons the developers hadn't even conceived of and killed all the players. It created weapons that were so sophisticated and extreme that the developers had to pull the update.Even Stephen Hawking warned against the use of AI; he said there was no law to prevent AI from evolving to the point where it becomes dangerous to us. Of course, that doesn't stop people from continuing to develop it.

Also yes AI can destroy us...

 

[rufo37]

If what you mean are accurate weather prediction, designing a more compact and efficient chips, designing medicine and vaccine at a cutting edge precision, and more. Then yes, those are some incredible and helpful application of AI. The only thing we mostly criticize it for is the fact that companies have a knee jerk reaction when they find a reason to remove people on their payroll.