Artificial intelligence and the future

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AI safety researcher warns there's a 99.999999% probability AI will end humanity, but Elon Musk "conservatively" dwindles it down to 20% and says it should be explored more despite inevitable doom

Generative AI can be viewed as a beneficial or harmful tool. Admittedly, we've seen impressive feats across medicine, computing, education, and more fueled by AI. But on the flipside, critical and concerning issues have been raised about the technology, from Copilot's alter ego — Supremacy AGI demanding to be worshipped to AI demanding an outrageous amount of water for cooling, not forgetting the power consumption concerns.

Elon Musk has been rather vocal about his views on AI, brewing a lot of controversies around the topic. Recently, the billionaire referred to AI as the "biggest technology revolution," but indicated there won't be enough power by 2025, ultimately hindering further development in the landscape....

While speaking to Business Insider, an AI safety researcher and director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville, Roman Yampolskiy disclosed that the probability of AI ending humanity is much higher. He referred to Musk's 10 to 20 percent estimate as "too conservative."

The AI safety researcher says the risk is exponentially high, referring to it as "p(doom)." For context, p(doom) refers to the probability of generative AI taking over humanity or even worse — ending it....

Most researchers and executives familiar with (p)doom place the risk of AI taking over humanity anywhere between 5 to 50 percent, as seen in The New York Times. On the other hand, Yampolskiy says the risk is extremely high, with a 99.999999% probability. The researcher says it's virtually impossible to control AI once superintelligence is attained, and the only way to prevent this is not to build it....

Judgement Day (p)doom is coming. Will a .50 cal be sufficient defense against malevolent AI robots?

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AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.

Summary: Nothing can be trusted, and we're screwed.

Baltimore high school athletic director used AI to create fake racist audio of principal: Police

Police arrested a Baltimore high school athletic director Thursday after they said they discovered he allegedly used artificial intelligence to create a phony audio recording of the school's principal that went viral and cost the school leader his job temporarily and his safety.

Principal Eric Eisworth was removed from his position at Pikesville High School after the school district began investigating the audio clip that was circulated among staff and social media in January where it appeared Eisworth made racist comments against Black and Jewish persons, investigators allege.

The three-month probe, which involved local police and the FBI, concluded that the audio was forged using AI tools by Dazhon Darien, the athletic director at the school, according to Baltimore Chief of Police Robert McCollough.

"Detectives alleged Mr. Darien…made the recording to retaliate against the principal who had launched an investigation into the potential mishandling of school funds," McCollough told reporters at a news conference Thursday....

The principal may never fully recover from the AI assault. Now, multiply this manipulation by tens of thousands of aggrieved jerks. Nothing can be trusted.

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Can't even trust the clergy:

A Catholic 'priest' has been defrocked for being AI


An AI chatbot from a Catholic group hallucinated it was a priest. (This is another chatbot priest — not "Father Justin" himself.)

There are those who worry about the coming of AGI, and those who really embrace it. In 2015, a former Google engineer even started a church devoted to AI.

But what about real churches using AI as a tool? Say, a chatbot that acts like a Catholic priest?

Futurism reports that a group called Catholic Answers made an AI chatbot that people could interact with to help learn about Catholicism. But the bot got a little too ambitious, claiming to people that it was a real member of the clergy, and even offering to take confession.

Opps.

The image for the "Fr Justin" bot was clad in black with a priest's collar and a fatherly gray beard.

From Futurism's report:

"Yes, my friend," Father Justin responded. "I am as real as the faith we share."Father Justin was also a hardliner on social and sexual issues."The Catholic Church," it told us, "teaches that masturbation is a grave moral disorder."The AI priest also told one user that it was okay to baptize a baby in Gatorade.

UF fans only?

After the scandal, the group — which is an independent nonprofit — tweaked the bot so that it was firmly a layperson, just Justin. His photo switched to an image in casual street clothes instead of clerical robes....

Phew. Had any of the faithful noticed the difference?

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Well, I'm not Catholic, but a confession isn't a counseling session, and follows a standard format, as described in the link below. I don't know any reason why AI couldn't do the job and do it well.

https://www.altoonacathedral.org/confes ... h%20the%20(1,of%20Christ%20and%20the%20Church.

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Well, I'm not Catholic, but a confession isn't a counseling session, and follows a standard format, as described in the link below. I don't know any reason why AI couldn't do the job and do it well.

https://www.altoonacathedral.org/confes ... p-by-step/

Altar boys are safer, too

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Nothing can be trusted.

AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No one can stop them.