Hi Caroline,
The premise of this article seems to be that everyone needs to solve either the immediate or the distant problems. No one (and certainly not Elon Musk) would argue that there are no immediate problems with AI, but why should that keep us from thinking ahead?
In a company, too, you have plumbers who fix the bathrooms today and strategists who plan business 20 years ahead. We need both. If the plumbers didn't worry about the immediate problems, the strategists couldn't do their jobs. If the strategists didn't worry about the distant problems, the plumbers might not have jobs down the road.
Also, your argument stands on sandy ground from paragraph one, where you claim that AI will never threaten humanity, without giving the inkling of an argument.
Bob
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Caroline Sinders csinders@wikimedia.org wrote:
hi all, i just started a column with fast co and wrote an article about elon musk's AI panic.
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90137818/dear-elon-forget- killer-robots-heres-what-you-should-really-worry-about
would love some feedback :)
best, caroline _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l