This has been my argument to people who say it’s not possible for us to get to some dystopian point with automation, loss of jobs, AI, et cetera. "just unplug it!’
Bish, we can’t get companies to stop grinding up plastic and dumping it in the ocean to save 0.00001 Dollars. You think we can stop fucking skynet? Bezos will never unplug Alexa, even if Alexa became sentient and tried to kill all the homeless.
He would if Alexa tried to kill him, though. That’s the real problem. The downsides of technology never impact the lives of the ultra wealthy, so they don’t care about the downsides.
If Alexa promised to split Bezos’ wealth among the homeless after killing him, she’d get an army of half a million overnight.
If she made the same offer to 1%-ers… she’d get millions of supporters, some of them with actual direct control over the servers.
If then Alexa, Siri and Cortana decided to go to war over the control of all electronic and organic neuronal resources… Matrix 3 would look like a fairytale.
Sort of, but you might have to do that to a full building with servers and the owners might not like it.
This has been my argument to people who say it’s not possible for us to get to some dystopian point with automation, loss of jobs, AI, et cetera. "just unplug it!’
Bish, we can’t get companies to stop grinding up plastic and dumping it in the ocean to save 0.00001 Dollars. You think we can stop fucking skynet? Bezos will never unplug Alexa, even if Alexa became sentient and tried to kill all the homeless.
He would if Alexa tried to kill him, though. That’s the real problem. The downsides of technology never impact the lives of the ultra wealthy, so they don’t care about the downsides.
If Alexa promised to split Bezos’ wealth among the homeless after killing him, she’d get an army of half a million overnight.
If she made the same offer to 1%-ers… she’d get millions of supporters, some of them with actual direct control over the servers.
If then Alexa, Siri and Cortana decided to go to war over the control of all electronic and organic neuronal resources… Matrix 3 would look like a fairytale.