ICYMI: "Doom Trolling:" Why AI Leaders Are Stoking Fear About Their Own Tech

[littlemissmartypants]

Leaders of some of the world's biggest AI companies have warned of potentially catastrophic consequences from the technology they're building. But computer science professor Cal Newport says this messaging is misleading. Newport joins the show to discuss why he believes the AI industry should stop what he calls "doom trolling."

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Doom trolling? These people don't recognize their own work in the AI field, and it shows a shocking disregard for their

safeguards that all programmers put in place, to test their new AI software thoroughly, before putting in place in the real world.

Be kind of irresponsible to put in untested software. Any reputable IT person (me w/ over 50 years of IT experience, even touching briefly on developing an intelligent software to self-implement new code when it realize it needed it (via new code written at the time). Back then, the software was not as robust, the space/dasd wasn't really available (dasd, storage space for computer programs to run in, save results in, etc.)

[Norrrm]

2. Doom? Skynet becomes self-aware.