I like the top reply:

> "The true purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth."

rolandog 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly; AI is to intellectual property or skills what shell corporations are to lobbying... they're a tool that won't benefit everyone equally and is unaffordable to most people.

It COULD be used for good (that's why its proponents use tone-deaf analogies comparing AI to seats on a rocket)... but we know that --- for the most part --- it WON'T be used for good... (It's already being used to spread more disinformation and to fan the flames of fascism).

Technically, you could argue that shell corporations could protect journalists, but you don't see journalists destabilizing democracies by fueling dark money to alt-right groups here and there.

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ModernMech 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One of the very first things the government used it for when they got their hands on it was for targeting missiles, and then they promptly bombed a school full of kids. It's like Idiocracy meets Terminator.

	▲	esafak 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Because the AI relied on outdated data; it was not a hallucination.

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nh23423fefe 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

human repeats bad idea.

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matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How many people have you all automated out of their jobs? None of you shed a single tear for them. Now that it's your turn, suddenly it's a problem?

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overgard an hour ago | parent [-]

This is such a ridiculous take I hear all the time. The shitty ethics of some people do not represent the ethics of an entire profession. Most programmers are not automating people out of jobs. I've been professionally employed as a software developer for 20 years and I don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Hopefully sometimes it improves their job.

	▲	matheusmoreira 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job. Doubt. Whatever it is your web app does, I bet corporations would have been forced to hire more people to do it for them, were it not for you. And there's absolutely nothing "unethical" about it either. Toil is meant to be automated away. What I can't take is programmers thinking they're somehow above this. The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved.