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Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it will be Chernobyl or 9/11 level, but I do think an epic fuckup with potential casualties is going to set AI back ten years. And maybe by then we'll have figure out our shit enough to make it not destroy society.

It's the same cycle you see with deregulation. Dereg good, until so much dereg that something epically fucks up. Then it's "why did no one prevent this" and regulations are back again.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Then it’s “why did no one prevent this” and regulations are back again.

then the regulations need to be stronger and the guillotines sharper.