1,300 A.I. experts come together to downplay ‘nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords'
fortune.com
Many technologists, including Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, have warned about A.I. potentially wiping out mankind.

In an open letter published on Tuesday, more than 1,370 signatories—including business founders, CEOs and academics from various institutions including the University of Oxford—said they wanted to “counter ‘A.I. doom.’”

“A.I. is not an existential threat to humanity; it will be a transformative force for good if we get critical decisions about its development and use right,” they insisted.

  • Peter Bronez
    3•11 months ago

    @donuts

    For example, image search has been contentious for very similar reasons.

    1. You post a picture online for people to see, and host some adds to make some money when people look at it.
    2. Then Google starts showing the picture in image search results.
    3. People view the image on Google and never visit your site or click on your ads. Worst case, google hot links it and you incur increased hosting costs with zero extra ad revenue

    @throws_lemy @SSUPII @technology

    • Peter Bronez
      2•11 months ago

      @donuts

      I certainly think that a Generative AI model is a more significant harm to the artist, because it impacts future, novel work in addition to already-published work.

      However in both cases the key issue is a lack of clear & enforceable licensing on the published image. We retreat to asking “is this fair use?” and watching for new Library of Congress guidance. We should do better.

      @throws_lemy @SSUPII @technology