Context: How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington
This suggests that a genuine existential threat here is not the science or the rapidly speciating logical abstractions that so dramatically inflate artificial intelligence with unbounded potential. The real issue boils down to a runaway train of unrestrained greed.
The concept of “existential threat” is of course always and already problematised by the partisan political and internationally bellicose stormclouds looming over us all at the moment.
How someone sees risk or opportunity is inevitably influenced by whichever political or cultural reflex is most prominent in their experience.
I perceive the endlessly self-amplifying accrual of wealth and power as being a recipe for disaster.
These newer technologies are operating at a pace and a scale, and with such inordinately complex sophistication that, once runaway feedback loops of self-amplifying acceleration occur, we will find ourselves on a potentially catastrophic trajectory towards political instability and collapse into singularity.
Seems like kind of a big problem…
Daedelus Kite 