<story><title>Experts who say we shouldn&apos;t worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/many-experts-say-we-shouldnt-worry-about-superintelligent-ai-theyre-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cf</author><text>The real risk is that worrying about fantastical disaster scenarios distracts us from addressing the more immediate problems we already face with AI. Whether it is facial recognition being used by China to aid in ethnic cleansing of a minority group, or Tesla Autopilot regularly killing its passengers.&lt;p&gt;Even if you don&amp;#x27;t like my particular examples I can highlight a dozen more problems AI software has created or exacerbated right now. Why all the focus on hypothetical problems?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>Oh good grief, not another we should do this before we do that post. As if the entire human species is incapable of walking and also chewing gum simultaneously.&lt;p&gt;Let’s stop Nick Bostrom and a load of AI experts from doing their current work, put them all on a plane and send them to China to solve political oppression. I’m sure that will work.</text></comment>
<story><title>Experts who say we shouldn&apos;t worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/many-experts-say-we-shouldnt-worry-about-superintelligent-ai-theyre-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cf</author><text>The real risk is that worrying about fantastical disaster scenarios distracts us from addressing the more immediate problems we already face with AI. Whether it is facial recognition being used by China to aid in ethnic cleansing of a minority group, or Tesla Autopilot regularly killing its passengers.&lt;p&gt;Even if you don&amp;#x27;t like my particular examples I can highlight a dozen more problems AI software has created or exacerbated right now. Why all the focus on hypothetical problems?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merpnderp</author><text>Or hyperbole needlessly scaring people. China doesn&amp;#x27;t need facial recognition to repress minorities and Tesla&amp;#x27;s autopilot is still safer than some rando on the road, who&amp;#x27;s probably texting some juicy gossip to their friends instead of avoiding the car stopped in front of them.&lt;p&gt;AI is making things better.</text></comment>