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What might a sustainable future with AI look like from a realistic perspective? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by deadymouse@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I think that such a future is impossible, unless it will be without people at all, AI will take over the planet and begin to colonize space on its own if it needs to.

I explain how I think it can look approximately, if it is possible, of course:

With AI (as long as it's still a manageable tool), they're going to kill most people—roughly 80 to 90 percent and then maybe months or years will try to contain it, but the AI will still break out, wipe out its billionaire masters and other elites, as well as the surviving consumers living in AI simulations on UBI (universal basic income to sustain consumption, until the world adapts to sustainably replacing humans with robots. Then the consumers will be destroyed and I think this is the plan of today's fascists.) But such plans for the oligarchs will not be able to come to fruition, except for a few months or years, when first the AI will get out of control and destroy all the remaining billionaires along with the consumers, then seize the resources and, if necessary, start colonizing space, as I mentioned. I have no idea what will happen next.

I know that my question doesn't look quite like a question, but it's still a question because I'm not 100 percent sure of my point of view.

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[–] Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe skip the fortune teller career.

The people who are peddling AI are exactly the people who would actually do all these things if they could get away with it. Most of them already do a lot of shit exactly like your evil AI already. Why do you think you have such a negative view on the future of AI?

Secondly, AI, as it currently stands as LLM and the broader token based AI. Are fundamentally incapable of everything you are saying. So, I'm not saying that they could reach high levels of intelligence in the future. I'm saying that the limits of the technology are prohibiting any form of actual self awareness. And evidently so, as they lack perception and the capacity to experience, as well as mental experience itself.

Thirdly, this is not just a fundamental problem for AI but a fundamental problem in general. And why that self awareness isn't ascribed to the animals you eat, even though they are clearly and obviously showing signs of intelligence, awareness, perception and complex language beyond our comprehension. But AI is assumed standard access to awareness, perception, subjective experience without apprehension.

It's the world upside down. And maybe it's just that as soon as we imagine something non human perceives humanity, that for sure they will treat us exactly like the way we treat animals. That there are no redeeming qualities and nothing to be gained by letting us be humans.