I was reading along and then I got to this part. 🙄
"Further, and frighteningly, some very knowledgeable people fear that what was once seen as science fiction could soon become a reality, and that is that superintelligent AI could become smarter than humans, could become independent of human control, and pose an existential threat to the human race. "
Folks, Bernie has been fully captured by the TESCREAL bundle
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/public-statement/1700273/9999
@timnitGebru CBC podcast with lecture from a literature professor explaining how AI hype has been lifted from sci-fi novels without any intellectual rigor. (ie The AI doomer statements are just quoting golden age of sci-fi tropes as science fact)
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Is there a practical way to reach Bernie Sanders and re-educate him? Someone in the democratic party who can talk to him?
@timnitGebru I went looking for a recording, and the one I found matches most of that page but one of the differences is that it doesn’t have that quote or the bits before and after: https://youtu.be/J_L9GS4-XH4
How else can I confirm that he actually said this?
YouTube
Well.. It _is_ frightening that some very knowledgeable people are so enamored of their fantasies that they believe this.
Of course with Bernie misses and all this is that EGI is not at all relevant because it’s not possible with the systems they have developed.
What these systems are good at is search on steroids. It’s ability to not only collect desperate pieces of information to track people like the way Israel uses it to kill leadership and journalist in Gaza, but was also used to kill Iranian leadership, it’s the ability to do it at scale while also injecting misinformation.
Sir, as a labor advocate perhaps you can instead talk about the data workers that make it look like there is something "super intelligent" and "smarter than humans"?
Trust me, any amount of addition of "existential risk" language will veer whatever you want to do in the wrong direction, because this language was created and parroted by the very people proliferating the race and data centers.
@timnitGebru These geezers illustrate, over and over, why we as a society cannot afford to have the small number of seats available in our legislature by Methuselahs who are -- I dunno -- reelected in 2024 at age 83?
Someone was remarking recently that when they graduated from Yale in 1996 the local House rep was Rosa de Lauro, and, today, in 2026, the local House rep is...Rosa de Lauro.
It's imperative these people are pushed out of power. Guaranteed this is old man credulity with Bernie.
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