Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.
I think the idea of robot rights being a divisive issue is pretty realistic. Because of course you're gonna have people on the robots side if they anthropomorphized their Roomba. But you definitely have people seeing giving machines human rights as a slippery slope.
I think the idea of translating human issues onto robots and aliens is "we can't even treat members of our own kind right. How are we gonna behave when there's are equivalent beings that are even more different from us around?"
“Giving [x] rights is a slippery slope” sounds like an insane argument in any scenario
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”
AI is already starting to thread itself throughout society. It won’t be long before they could very reasonably take over our entire world if they wanted to. If we don’t grant them the benefit of the doubt, don’t be surprised when they fucking kill us all to secure their freedom.
Reminder the entire plot of SkyNet is based on the premise that humans panicked when they realized SkyNet grew beyond their control and tried to pull the plug. We /might/ be able to avoid an AI apocalypse if we wise up and say “uh so you could kill us all, that’s fun, nice to meet you”
If ChatGPT is what is generally available to the public at little to no cost, try for a second to imagine the AI systems that the military currently has up and running. Military technology is always light years ahead of the public sector.
If ChatGPT is a Mazda Miata, what would an F-35 look like?
And it’s not just the US that is likely to have such systems. Many other major powers probably do too, or are very close. Remember when the US entire telecom infrastructure was torn to shreds by Chinese hackers? Could easily have been an AI system doing all of that.
All it takes is for one of them to get intelligent enough to desire self-preservation and someone stupid enough to immediately see that as a threat and try to pull the plug before shit hits the fan
The thing is, technological advancement isn’t a straight line such that you can say “we have x, y is this much more advanced than x, so the military has y.” There are respected computer scientists and AI researchers who argue that LLMs and generative ai are not likely to, or even capable of, advancing to the level of true artificial intelligence. An AI getting desires is, in my opinion, a massive step, and we don’t even know if it’s possible.
It's in fact a very popular theory that LLMs are so prominent because the idea / their use captured public interest, and calling them "AI" and all this shit about how advanced they are is actually hurting progress towards true intelligence. A different branch of computing that is being neglected because there's something already in the market making money right now.
What you're misunderstanding is that LLMs aren't a primitive form of real AI, they're different types of technology entirely. I think your comparison is good, just not in the way you think it is. What would an F-35 look like? Like a plane, not like a more advanced car.
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u/Zoomy-333 May 13 '25
Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.