This is about the AI suicide case. The person I’m quoting is not making the argument I’m about to criticize, so this isn’t directed at them, but: Imagine that we had invented the car, but we found brakes incredibly hard to get right. Would we let people sell cars?
I don’t think your argument works well. Because “we” *did* let people sell cars without seatbelts at first, and without airbags for a long time.
are you asking this question at a time in human history when there is no car culture, or at one in which it is fully mature?
This is America so yeah
There needs to be an FDA for AI. It should be categorized like narcotics. It should not be injected into society (like it currently is) without meeting standards. Not advising people to commit suicide would be a good place to start
Ford Pinto
Actually that's what happened. Cars sucked. Steering sucked. Brakes were a joke. Gas tanks might be under your seat or in the dash. There were no brake lights or turn signals. Seatbelts were finally required in '68. Insurers fought adding ABS. Every warning sticker is written in blood. We love $.
we did find brakes (and steering and everything else) hard to get right, that’s why car drivers kill tens of thousands of Americans a year (globally another order of magnitude or two) and have more or less since before living memory 🤷🏽
(this is not a defense of OpenAI, who I’m happy to roast as the amoral monsters they are, but the car industry were also amoral monsters and we also let them get away with it in exchange for ruining our cities, killing millions, and uh… the Ford Foundation?)
Just imagine that people buy and sell riding horses even though - we have no idea how horses think - we can't predict their behavior - we can't completely control them and - they cause dozens of deaths every year. Crazy!
I think the analogy would be - would we let someone with a couple of semesters of undergrad psychology classes treat people with severe psychiatric illness? NO! We require people to have advanced degrees and lots of experience. AI is not ready for mission critical prime time.
This is also the exact reason why all these companies are pushing this shit, because it lets them off the hook for heinous things as long as “the ai did it”
Imagine we invented *kind of* self-driving cars.
We could call them "Teslas."
We have engineered sycophantic plagiarism engines that feed off of our approval.
Yes and we did. Brakes on early cars sucked.