I’ve been listening to this video breaking down Mo Gawdat’s “Scary Smart” and honestly I’m terrified for what’s coming. Gawdat, a former Google X exec, argues that superintelligent AI is coming and we need to raise it with the right values. But his solution is individual consciousness and meditation, not collective action.

Meanwhile, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and the rest are locked in a race to the bottom, building more powerful AI systems with zero democratic input. The same corporations that brought us surveillance capitalism, algorithmic management of warehouse workers, and AI tools that displace creative workers are now deciding the future of superintelligence.

The working class — the people who will actually live or die by these systems — have no seat at the table. We’re told to “become more conscious” while boardrooms make existential decisions behind closed doors.

So my question: how do we actually democratize AI development? Or are we just going to sit down and hope for the best while capital gambles with the future of humanity?

  • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So you’re clearly aware of the real harms this industry causes, such as the absolutely appalling example from your comment.

    All I’m asking of you is to be more worried/appalled by real harms than of marketing hype. The real harms are there, they’re things like making people in Kenya view csam, the hypothetical future “superintelligence” is marketing hype.

    • Jorvex609@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I don’t believe that. The AI bubble can collapse and there’s still going to be progress. This is a technology being worked on worldwide not in a single country. And exponential improvement means it’s going to arrive faster than most people predict right now. If we as a society aren’t doing anything to stop people from being exploited right now, after we reach superintelligence all humanity is going to be repressed as capitalism cannibalizes itself replacing workers with machines. Basically ending class struggle by getting rid of the working class altogether.