Doctors on the Existential Threat of AI By Brian Simpson
Yesterday I covered financiers who were concerned about the social and existential threats of AI. Today there is more, as doctors and global health experts weigh in on the issue. Having covered the Covid plandemic for three years now at the blog, I have a healthy scepticism towards the health profession. Still, the concerns of this group on the AI issue, is sound. “The ability of AI to rapidly clean, organise and analyse massive data sets consisting of personal data, including images collected by the increasingly ubiquitous presence of cameras,” will reinforce power of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes to maintain power, as the example of communist China shows. Millions will lose their jobs as AI expands to replace an ever greater number of people, including the service industry. And, Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS), using AI to identify and destroy targets, also is a concern, if the systems get to be deployed against you. These are all legitimate reasons for concern.
“Medical experts have issued a fresh call to halt the development of artificial intelligence (AI), warning it poses an ‘existential threat’ to people.
A team of five doctors and global health policy experts from across four continents said there were three ways in which the tech could wipe out humans.
First is the risk that AI will help amplify authoritarian tactics like surveillance and disinformation. ‘The ability of AI to rapidly clean, organise and analyse massive data sets consisting of personal data, including images collected by the increasingly ubiquitous presence of cameras,’ they say, could make it easier for authoritarian or totalitarian regimes to come to power and stay in power.
Second, the group warns that AI can accelerate mass murder via the expanded use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS).
And, lastly, the health experts expressed worry over the potential for severe economic devastation and human misery, as untold millions lose their livelihoods to those hard-working bots. ‘Projections of the speed and scale of job losses due to AI-driven automation,’ according to the authors, ‘range from tens to hundreds of millions over the coming decade.’
There commentary comes only weeks after over a thousand scientists, including John Hopfield from Princeton and Rachel Branson from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, signed a letter calling for a halt to AI research over similar concerns.”
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