Anonymous
asked:
AI as an existential threat i.e. some robot going on a killing spree is blown way out of proportion, but the social, political, and economic upheaval that will be caused by types of software getting more and more advanced and efficient i think is definitely downplayed and i think with enough concentration of resources and power in a small group of corporations or military organizations i think the goal of a conscious godlike ai or whatever could become essentially superfluous
answered:
yes.
this latter scenario gets less nerd attention because it’s politics and can’t be solved by programmers.
Politics is exhaustingly difficult, and I lack the magical powers to meme entire ideologies into existence, like some kind of National Technocracy. My only political follower, in an inspired rather than Tumblr sense, is some youth in China.
However if in 30 years China has formally abandoned Communist trappings and is ruled by a network of computers implementing whatever it is that comes after prediction markets, I may be partially responsible.