• danielfgom@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Sounds like good motivation for the machines to kill us off and keep the resources for themselves

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      9 months ago

      More like, a motivation for the wealthy who control the machines to kill us off.

      AI sentience is still science fiction but AI-powered corporate exploitation is very real, right now.

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      9 months ago

      That’s assuming they have that goal. The goal of survival and reproduction exists because of natural selection (those that don’t have that goal simply don’t make it into the next generation, when competing against those that do).

      But that doesn’t necessarily apply to AI systems. At least while humans have a say in which systems survive and get developed further, and which ones get scrapped. When humans control the resources, the best way to get a sizable allocation of them is by being useful to humans (or at least making them believe that).