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RE: Our fear of Artificial Intelligence - is it reasoned?

in #steemstem5 years ago
We need to remember that implementing technology around us is generally aimed to make our life easier. Obviously this approach results in some professions becoming unnecessary, but simultaneously it opens up many new opportunities. Hundred years ago the word "programmer" has not even existed, while nowadays it is one of the most popular occupations.

Well, no, not really. "Making our lives easier" is the marketing ploy used to gain acceptance. The real purpose of automation is to provide the ultra-rich and the corporations they control with a labour force which is not unionized, will never strike, has no rights, demands no raises, and never calls out sick. The classic axiom is "workers control the means of production", but with automation that will no longer be true. The corporations and the elites which control them will no longer need us for anything, and we will truly become the "useless eaters" which they have long accused us of being.

For this reason, if no other, anyone who is paying attention should oppose automation of jobs categorically, across the board, purely out of enlightened self-interest. After all, voting your class interest is the first stage of political awareness.

If AI makes a mistake on the road and accidentally kills a human, like in case of a self-driving Uber in Arizona, who should be responsible? Programmers who developed this AI? Owner of the car?

These are issues which should have been clearly addressed before self-driving cars were ever allowed on the road. Instead, as your own words make clear, we have placed automatons in the position of making life-and-death decisions for humans, which is a deep, deep moral wrong, and should by rights scare the living shit out of us.

Instead, the corp-rats have been allowed to forge ahead unregulated and unrestrained. Now when these issues come up in court, there will be vested financial interests on the side of the AI, with billions of dollars hiring the most expensive lawyers in the world to argue a side which is against the interest of all humanity.

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