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Meredith Whittaker

MS--Open AI's ~parent company--already has massive US military contracts. This is the biz model.

This news is also one more alarm re. the current AI paradigm, its reliance on concentrated corp power, & the undemocratic decision making power this gives these (primarily) US-based corps.

theintercept.com/2024/01/12/op

13 January at 17:08 | Open on mastodon.world
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Meredith Whittaker

...for anyone preparing to step to this post with arguments re. AI's potential efficiencies/precision leading to harm reduction in war, no. That's an unevidenced hope.

Where we do have insight (which is scarce, given the pernicious intersection of trade secrecy and classification), it points to AI enabling "Jevon's paradox, but for death."

See: 972mag.com/mass-assassination-

13 January at 17:09 | Open on mastodon.world
Zac Belado

@Mer__edith I am surprised this hasn't been discussed more

13 January at 17:19 | Open on hachyderm.io
Sarah W

@Mer__edith
Even if that was the intention (it's not), the possibility of AI getting things dreadfully wrong will mean more deaths.

13 January at 17:22 | Open on mastodon.green
fool

@Mer__edith If all major military powers use AI to a similar extent, would it revert warfare back to primitive stage because nothing is reliable without naked eye confirmation?

Either that, or kill everyone and nuke everything.

13 January at 17:12 | Open on mastodon.world
Meredith Whittaker

@fool Well, all major military powers don't have access to AI on the same terms, given that the corporations able to produce AI at scale are largely based in the US, followed by China.

I can't answer the following questions, because I'm not sure I follow.

13 January at 17:16 | Open on mastodon.world
fool

@Mer__edith
That's a fair point. Assuming other military powers would eventually catch up, or assuming AI production would eventually become commodity that could be easily be purchased like mercenaries or black market firearms are too hypothetical and missing the point.

Forget about the other questions - it was based on the assumption that the conflicting military powers both have access to deploy AI at similar scale, the obfuscation and analysis involved would even out. And they

13 January at 17:53 | Open on mastodon.world
fool

would've to either act on every piece of information, or rely heavily on manual labour as if cyberwarfare has been rendered useless @Mer__edith

13 January at 17:53 | Open on mastodon.world
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