Mind-reading machines are here: is it time to worry?

[Nearly Sane]

As with many recent articles on the subject of AI, this could have gone into philisophy, and indeed perhaps based on replues, if there are any, it might end up there.

The other question is whether thete should just be one AI thread but I feel that the myriad impacts we are seeing mean that would be clumsy.


The intetesting thkng in this article is that the benefits of an interface that would allow for such communication are obvious, and yet so are the concerns. I think moreso than for almost any other area of technological development this angel/demon aspect is clear. Also unlike other developments there is the concern that that angel/demon aspect does not just arise because of humanity.


https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01486-z

[Outrider]

As with any technology, it strikes me that it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the uses to which people will put it. Where is the line between open communication and data harvesting? When does the technology cross over from transmitting what you want to communicate to what you don't want to communicate (and who controls when it steps over).

Unfortunately, looking around at what people do with the technology we currently have in the seemingly endless quest to monetise every aspect of life, I feel cynical, and yet at the same time I'm aware that even with the problems of privacy we have these days, these are a categorical difference from starvation, rampant ill-health and the like that were the problems of earlier times.

O.

[Nearly Sane]

As with any technology, it strikes me that it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the uses to which people will put it. Where is the line between open communication and data harvesting? When does the technology cross over from transmitting what you want to communicate to what you don't want to communicate (and who controls when it steps over).

Unfortunately, looking around at what people do with the technology we currently have in the seemingly endless quest to monetise every aspect of life, I feel cynical, and yet at the same time I'm aware that even with the problems of privacy we have these days, these are a categorical difference from starvation, rampant ill-health and the like that were the problems of earlier times.

O.

That's why I highlighted that I think in this case the concerns have the additional wrinkle of whether it will be just humanity's intentions that we have to worry about.