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It's wild to me that there's currently so much panic & fear about what #AI *might* do to "destroy" humanity, yet - at the same time - so little attention to the way that human behaviors are already, knowingly, putting billions of people & global biodiversity at tremendous risk. 🌍 #climatechange
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Tim Mackey 🦥
Tim Mackey 🦥  
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I saw this meme recently which captures the problem so perfectly. People are afraid of AI as if it’s not just a formalization of all the unethical behaviors that are ingrained in our society already. #AI
Variation on the “trolley problem” meme. Instead of two tracks, the trolley is traveling down a single track and running over endless numbers of people, while a man stands at the controls and tells everyone “guys, the train might be sentient someday,” as if that’s the problem to worry about and not the human decisions that already put all the people on the tracks.
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