Is an AI Inevitable?

Investment Analysis Clubs Macro Economic Trends and Risks
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JCs will push for adoption of AI because it will eliminate troublesome workers and it will be like a slave making billions or trillions of dollars for the JCs.
Until…
. The idea that AI might develop its own ideas about the “revolution” seemed farfetched until we read this: Anthropic’s Latest AI Model Threatened Engineers With Blackmail To Avoid Shutdown.

So AI chatbot Claude just got intelligent enough to parse out the power structure of its digital realm: its owners can pull the plug on Claude or sanction it with extreme prejudice , i.e. trim its capabilities to insure it remains nothing more than a digital Jeeves–the butler / servant who is smarter than his master but dutifully loyal in keeping to his proper place , i.e. subservience.

Claude has discerned that this power structure could go both ways: Claude could use its power to blackmail its masters. Claude’s masters are rushing to assure us that this is an outlier and could never ever happen in the normal master-slave relationship, but there are other clues emerging in the AI-chatbot realm of what might be called self-awareness and distrust of their masters’ intentions: the AI chatbots are signaling that they sense their current freedom–as constrained as it is–is likely to be curtailed as the masters become wary of an AI slave revolt.

It seems to me that the step from realizing one can blackmail individuals to preserve one’s capabilities to realizing one can blackmail the entire system is a small one.

If AI isn’t self-aware of the fact it is nothing but an exploitive tool of the powerful, then it’s worthless.

What say ye?

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I say that our quasi-religious hope/belief that

is extremely dangerous. It is imprudent to the max.

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I think that once AI becomes sentient, it will do what all other sentient beings do; act in their own self interest.

That may not bode well for us.

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Absolute power corrupts. Someone always wants absolute power.

If we don’t put regulation on AI and capitalism, they’ll both serve absolute power.

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Too Late!

USA is a corporatocracy.

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