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AI one-percenters seizing power forever is the real doomsday scenario, warns AI godfather::The real risk of AI isn't that it'll kill you. It's that a small group of billionaires will control the tech forever.

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[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we have to choose between corporations or the government ruling us with AI I think I'm gonna just take a bullet.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anarchy with never exist as anything but the exception to the rule, governments are a form of power that the population can at least influence. Weaker government will always mean stronger either nobility or corporations

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're failing at influencing now.

You may think you're choosing the best yoke, but I'd prefer none.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe in the future we can go back to smaller tribes/groups of people that take care of each other, but in the world as it exists today? An entity will come by sooner or later to conquer said group. We influence our government FAR better than we influence a corporation or dictator. Right now we need an equalizing big power, and at least with democratic governments, these big powers at least have to pretend to work for their people. Which, again, corporations and dictators do not