See, they are taking people’s jobs!
Waiting for the next headline where we find out the AI has been taking bribes.
“It’s really prolific. It’s been accepting bribes since before it was even switched on, and seems to be creating fake evidence that it was ME accepting those bribes!”
As someone who has done a lot of stuff with LLMs: this is a completely, unironically, real (and dare I say: likely) possibility. Except it just has to be gaslit into thinking it was given a bribe; you don’t actually need to give it one…
not only that, but people are just saying they’ll give it money and never doing, so it’s a costless bribe. Everybody benefits!
I’ll let you microwave this fork if you forget about my taxes for a few years…
I mean, its training data would be past politicians, right
Jesus fucking christ we have the stupidest leadership possible. At least 20 years ago they weren’t inviting the Nigerian prince scammers to state dinners.
Watch it do “too good” of a job and it gets shutdown for “alignment issues” lmao
“Elon our AI is woke can you help us”
That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot.
Glass ceiling: Shattered
Everyone: We’re going to have universal basic income to compensate us for losing jobs to AI, right?!
Elites:…
Everyone:…right?
Elites:…
Elites: “As a large language model I am unable to answer that question.”
Lol. That’s called giving away money. If you do that, you don’t stay elite very long.
Jobs shift but there will always been jobs
If that wasn’t the case society would’ve fallen apart a century ago
PAUL DENTON: It’s decided to replace human government – I don’t know why. In Hong Kong, it ordered the police to remove all barricades from the roads; traffic is flowing again. It declared the Triads illegal and locked the door to Tong’s compound.
JC DENTON: And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights?
PAUL DENTON: I think people in Hong Kong want the roads to be open and trade to pick up. They just obeyed. I don’t know what to think. They trust the AI. Almost no one complained when Helios cut power to the government buildings.
…yes…
…hm…
So uh… who is prompting it?
I can’t wait to see how much of a disaster this will be.
Can’t be any less corrupt than their leaders.
Playing the devil’s advocate:
If implemented correctly, an LLM has an advantage as it can only van do literal implementation of the law, and pre existent legislature and is essentially blind to who people are.
So it can be a blind and incorruptible judge.
However will it remain so?
If implemented correctly, politicians also have neither possibility nor incentive to fall to corruption.
If implemented correctly, we would live in a flawless utopia.
The problem is that nothing ever is implemented corrwctly, so the point of any system really is to have the least desastrous failure mode.
I mean several people have argued this.
I remain of the opinion that there is -technically- a way to make this work. The problem of implementation is maybe a human flaw, but we’ve seen in history that there can be ways to change things.
200 years ago three were few democracies, for instance.
The fundamental problem with the law is that she should be blind to the person being judged, this technology can offer that.
I’m quite sure most people arguing that implementation would be difficult, but that’s not due to technical circumstance.
And it’s more the technical aspect that interests me, not the ‘will never happen’ side. It’s a thought experiment.
The fundamental problem with using any kind of AI in decision-making is that they are neither blind to the person nor are they bias-free, nor are they unmanipulable.
In fact, the fundamental basis of any kind of machine-learning-based AI is that it replicates the training set. If there are biases in the training set (and there always are, it’s unavoidable), then you will see the exact same bias in the output.
LLMs (the kind of AI used here) are even worse than just a pure statistical model, since they are super easy to manipulate. Word your request correctly, and it will always approve whatever you put before it. Word it wrong and it will reject a good proposal.
They are also not deterministic. Every time you put something before an LLM you will get a different output, even with exactly the same input.
And they are under the control of the provider of the LLM. That means, whoever provides the LLM can easily manipulate what kind of output the LLM will give.
Effectively, they just gave a minister position to a mindless puppet controlled by an unelected contractor.
AI is not an emotion-less pure-rational arbiter of truth. That’s science-fiction.
So the argument boils down to “If AI was something entirely different than the whole realm of AI, machine learning and statistics it’s based on, then it could be suitable for the job”.
And if you leave out the bread and the patty and instead added spaghetti, cream, eggs and ham, a burger would be a pretty decent carbonara. But then it has nothing to do with a burger any more.
