I engage in a conversation with Claude 3 about the extreme danger of the current path we’re traveling in incorporating AI systems into nuclear weapon systems surveillance and launch decisions
Ah, you might recall that some time ago I suggested in a comment that a participant in another exchange you conducted on the subject of AI was itself non-human, a suggestion you politely but mischievously rejected! Also amusingly, and not surprisingly, at least one of the observations the Claude chat-bot makes here could have been regurgitated from a dialogue between General Turgidson and the President in Doctor Strangelove (itself well-researched, of course).
The greater danger as I see it is not of AI taking upon itself to start a nuclear war but the increasingly inhuman character of flesh & blood decision makers who have declared war on Reality and their own people, and who exhibit all the signs of Strangeloves, including totalitarianism and the propensity to destroy the planet (while saving it, of course). And I believe the current obsession with AI and its dangers, real or imagined, is but a minor theatre of the same war.
Yes, we have real reason to worry! But the immediate danger is coming from other directions, many associated with so-called artificial intelligence, granted, but at a more basic, less theatrical level: digital ID, CBDCs, surveillance, censorship, propaganda, human psychic epidemics...
Ah, you might recall that some time ago I suggested in a comment that a participant in another exchange you conducted on the subject of AI was itself non-human, a suggestion you politely but mischievously rejected! Also amusingly, and not surprisingly, at least one of the observations the Claude chat-bot makes here could have been regurgitated from a dialogue between General Turgidson and the President in Doctor Strangelove (itself well-researched, of course).
The greater danger as I see it is not of AI taking upon itself to start a nuclear war but the increasingly inhuman character of flesh & blood decision makers who have declared war on Reality and their own people, and who exhibit all the signs of Strangeloves, including totalitarianism and the propensity to destroy the planet (while saving it, of course). And I believe the current obsession with AI and its dangers, real or imagined, is but a minor theatre of the same war.
Yes, we have real reason to worry! But the immediate danger is coming from other directions, many associated with so-called artificial intelligence, granted, but at a more basic, less theatrical level: digital ID, CBDCs, surveillance, censorship, propaganda, human psychic epidemics...