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Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 4 days ago by Artisian@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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... in the United States, public investment in science seems to be redirected and concentrated on AI at the expense of other disciplines. And Big Tech companies are consolidating their control over the AI ecosystem. In these ways and others, AI seems to be making everything worse.

This is not the whole story. We should not resign ourselves to AI being harmful to humanity. None of us should accept this as inevitable, especially those in a position to influence science, government, and society. Scientists and engineers can push AI towards a beneficial path. Here’s how.

The essential point is that, like with the climate crisis, a vision of what positive future outcomes look like is necessary to actually get things done. Things with the technology that would make life better. They give a handful of examples and provide broad categories if activities that can help steer what is done.

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[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

we have already spent the billions

sunken cost fallacy

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I think of it more like genie-out-of-lamp. It's now very cheap to fine tune a huge model and deploy it. Policy and regulation need to deal with that fact.