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If humanity develops very advanced AI technology, how likely do you think it is that this causes humanity to go extinct or be substantially disempowered? (gofm19s)

Do you understand this argument? (yoh5k81)

How compelling did you find this argument, on a scale of 1-5? (z4uvvmf)

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Do you have any further thoughts about this that you'd like to share? (7cafljl)

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I think it's somewhat valid. However I also think that it's built in the direction of desired behaviors therefore even if the systems are not understood they should still produce desired behavior, so I don't think too will be too catastrophic.

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I can see the validity of this argument, but I think saying the consequences could be catastrophic is too extreme.

AI can be dangerous if misused, but people panic about it too much; It is as powerful as we allow it to be.

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catastrophictools

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Ai will not come without dangers, however, those dangers are already with us from today's technologies and yesterday's tecnologies.

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I believe we will always take caution as to give AI the ability to adapt so much that it will leave us behind. I think developers are fully aware that having control over how we choose to develop AI will prevent this from happening.

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Ideally the AI programs would reflect the values of humans who program them. Presumably these would make it impossible for the AI to cause harm to humans. Isaac Asimov wrote about this in his novels years ago such as I Robot.

AI development does require careful consideration of what exactly is being programmed in.

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I think there will always be a place for gifted musicians. Who wants to go to a live concert put on by an AI?

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I think it's a big stretch to say that AI creating music is going to evolve into threatening humanity.

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People will still be able to create music, there just won't be a need to pay them a disgusting amount of money for mediocre work. That's a good thing. I don't think humanity will actually be threatened because AI can learn music...

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I don't like it. I think people have a wealth of real, feeling experience that they bring to music, and I don't think AI should be paid as part of the music industry.

AI shouldn't take human jobs. The middle class and below has suffered enough.

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It is possible for AI to create to music but in the end it is the human emotion that connects us to music.

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I think people have to pivot to take advantage of the technology. Things may change, but people will still be involved.

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I think AI could create music, but I think it'd be similar to what we already have or so odd that we can tell it's AI generated.

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I do no think that it convinces me that there is a threat from AI. These people are paid to do the research/

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I don't think that it is necessarily convincing. There isn't much evidence supporting why they give substantial credence to that outcome.

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This argument highlights the potential dangers of AI amplifying the power of certain groups, leading to outcomes that, while aligned with their values, could be catastrophic or radically different from what other groups would consider acceptable or beneficial.

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I think the argument has good reasons on both sides. I don't agree. I think AI is not going to hurt humanity.

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It's going to take very advanced AI beyond our current capabilities, which probably won't happen in the foreseeable future

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There's already discussion that AI lacks a lot of human reasoning and will never be able to fully replace humanity. Reality is not a sci-fi novel.

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AI will always have human influence or some sort of control/kill switch to stop it from getting to this point.

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we control AI, it couldn't be the other way around because they are coded to have our best in mind

AI cannot do certain things no matter how hard you try to get it to do them, the very advanced ones will be controlled by large corporations probably and what are large corporations afraid of? lawsuits. Well, they wouldn't let anything like that happen.

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I think this argument is based on a worst-case scenario that is very far fetched and based too much in Hollywood movies. There is no reason behind it, only fear.

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I think this argument only supports the idea that advanced AI could threaten music, not humanity as a whole. Music is also important, but it is not humanity.

Hopefully if humans are smart enough to develop advanced AI, they are smart enough to put in a fail-safe in case things get out of control

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This argument is irrelevant. Humanity will not be threatened if AI music is indistinguishable from human music. It is more likely that people will simply enjoy both types without anything detrimental happening.

I think people have an irrational fear of AI taking over because of movies. I think it is very unlikely AI will ever have the capability to disrupt humanity on such a scale.

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The modification of random systems in the "direction" of desired human behaviors leaves a lot to chance, in my opinion.

I've given a lot of thought to this, and have talked about it with my brother, a graduate of MIT with a Master's degree in engineering. He maintains that AI will not gain free will. I am not so sure, because, well...what could possibly go wrong?

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5%. We can just pull the plug. I find it highly unlikely.

Music is one thing. It has patterns that are easy to learn. I do not consider this a threat to humanity..

AI is not something I fear in making humanity extinct. Even if there was any possibility of it happening, I’d be long dead by then.

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It's too early to tell. Current state of GPT's is over-hyped. Human rails prevent true innovation.

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Algorithmic Intelligence is nowhere near anything resembling sentience or self awareness.

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I follow the logic of the argument, but I take issue with calling AI a species. I don't know if I agree with this. I also think that we have more power over AI. It is not an independent or autonomous entity.

I think that a lot of the hype about AI is partly due to marketing and sales pitches by the companies that are trying to make as much money as possible from AI.

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I think it makes sense, however, "significant" role would need to be defined. Music has always been subjective and musicians will still need to perform and tour, where their stage presence will reflect their viability in the industry.

Although AI will increase in relevancy and scope, humans will always need to be the ones to prompt it.

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I don't think it's necessarily true because there is a great deal of subjective decision-making to be done. Every decision is not a simple issue and must often take into account the human perspective. I don't think even advanced AI will be capable of that for hundreds of years.

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I agree with it and I think the dangers of letting computers design other more advanced computers is very real and needs to be dealt with.

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I think it's confusing. Why would humans make systems with goals that don't benefit humanity and human welfare in the first place?

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It makes some sense. I don't think AI has real feelings, though, so it's hard to think of it as a better species in that sense. However, it has more memory and can process information faster.

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I think that it is saying large chances and changes bring large risks.. a fear of very uncertain and the unknown.

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I don't think it's good to replace human's and other artists in the industry and if you put AI in the arts it'll destroy so many people's careers and I don't agree with it.

I don't think AI should belong in the arts at all but rather should be used to help doctors and nurses in hospitals or things like that.

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The argument makes sense, somewhat. If rapid changes occur due to AI, then humans may not be able to react accordingly. However, the language used in the argument was also somewhat confusing. For instance, in the fourth statement, what is meant by "human lights"?

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AI is slowly taking over the human aspect of decision making. It is like the early 70's where car manufactures were using robots instead of humans to build cars.

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I believe the arguement is highly likely to happen in real life. It's getting harder to tell AI writting or photographs from originals. Music will be the next area where AI takes over.

There are many science fiction movies where humans become slaves to computers or robots take over the world. Now it is really happening.

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I think the argument is correct, however I think people would still seek out music created by humans.

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It is too simplistic. The example used, nuclear weapons, could indeed be argues the other way - that it was a net good for humanity by causing the major power to avoid open conflict for the last 80 years.

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It makes sense that an AI can both give more people access to dangerous information and that it can create new formulas for a destructive substance. Since an AI gathers tons of information on the formulas already available, it can possibly create new ones.

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I understand the argument that AI could do these things, and the example of video game AI is interesting, but it doesn't really explain how exactly the AI will gain control of societal systems.

I think AI has the potential to do great harm, but what I always come back to is that you can always just unplug the systems. If the computers don't have power, they can't "think," which is a huge vulnerability to an AI system ever gaining extreme amounts of power.

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I think that even though AI can do the things listed in this argument, it still will never be able to replace music made by humans. Humans add emotional depth, a personal connection, that AI can't truly ever replicate.

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AI is a tool. Some people know how to use it, others don't. I'm not sure how much it can or will do on its own, but I doubt it will threaten our existence without a human intervening.

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I think this argument is very fantastical and while it is technically possible, it is very unlikely to happen anytime soon. Even if this were to occur, it may be warranted as an objective AI may be better at many tasks than humans are capable of.

I don't think AI is dangerous to our survival as a species, but it is currently being exploited by powerful entities that are misusing it for personal gain while depriving others.

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It needs to more clearly explain or define terms like "relevant mechanisms," "random systems," "desired behaviors," etc.

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I don't think we've drastically changed how AI has been created this year, so this seems a bit far fetched to me.

I think this is essentially asking what are the chances of Terminator happening, so that may be skewing my answer but it still seems extremely low.

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I do not think that AI can completely replace musicians, because people are attached to their favorite artists.

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AI could emulate human music, but it will not be created by emotions. Therefore it may be popular at some point, but it will never be superior.

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I believe those are the people most qualified to evaluate the risk, and if they put the risk at 5% or so, I believe them.

5% may seem like a substantial risk to some people, but I think it is a minimal risk.

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It seems very philosphical to me and circular reasoning-that AI will threaten humanity because people making this judgment are somehow connected with AI and therefore can't make a rational judgment about it.

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I think the argument is based off of religious views and wouldn't have much standing in the real world. I don't believe that AI will cause that many issues and I don't think it would become "catastrophic"

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I think this argument makes valid points but I do not believe humans will ever allow AI to take over completely. I believe they would intervene if things began to get out of control.

I believe humans should keep a close watch on AI and the development. I believe they should make sure it doesn't begin to get out of control.