We need a more sophisticated debate about AI
The issue with our AI debate is that there&#x27;s not a single &quot;problem&quot; but many inter-dependent issues without a clear system-wide solution.<p>- Big tech monopolizing the models, data, and hardware.<p>- Copyright concerns.<p>- Job security.<p>- AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends.<p>- Corporations intentionally using AI to cause harm for their own ends.<p>- Feedback loops will flood the internet with content of unknown provenance, which get included in the next model, etc.<p>- AI hallucinations resulting in widespread persistent errors that cause an epistemological crisis.<p>- The training set is inherently biased; human knowledge and perspectives not represented in this set could be systematically wiped from public discourse.<p>We can have meaningful discussions on each of these topics. And I&#x27;m sure we all have a level of concern assigned to each (personally, I&#x27;m far more worried about an epistemological crisis and corporate abuse than some AI singularity).<p>But we&#x27;re seeing these topics interact in real-time to make a system with huge emergent societal properties. Not sure anyone has a handle on the big picture  (there is no one driving the bus!) but there&#x27;s plenty of us sitting in the passenger seats and raising alarm bells about what we see out our respective little windows.