I am freaking out. The world is going to get very messy extremely quickly in one or two further jumps in capability like this.
I am freaking out. The world is going to get very messy extremely quickly in one or two further jumps in capability like this.
Messy in a way that would affect you?
I can think of several possible messy outcomes that would be able to directly affect me, not all mutually exclusive:
- Job loss by me being replaced by an AI or by somebody using an AI. Or by an AI using an AI.
- Resulting societal instability once blue collar jobs get fully automated at scale, and there is no plan in place to replace this loss of peoples' livelihoods.
- People turning to AI models instead of friends for emotional support, loss of human connection.
- Erosion of democracy by making authoritarianism and control very scalable, broad in-detail population surveillance and automated investigation using LLMs that was previously bounded by manpower.
- Autonomous weapons, "Slaughterbots" as in the short film from 2017
- Biorisk through dangerous biological capabilities that enable a smaller team of less skilled terrorists to use a jailbroken LLM to create something dangerous.
- Other powers in the world deciding that this technology is too powerful in the hands of the US, or too dangerous to be built at all and has to be stopped by all means.
- Loss of/Voluntary ceding of control over something much smarter than us. "If Anyone Build It, Everyone Dies"
Exploits in embedded systems that will never be properly updated is just one thing I can think of if one really thought about it.
"Internet no longer viable" would affect everyone, probably
The only thing preventing this today is cost, not capability. As costs come down over the next 5 years, the idea that the internet was once dominated by people will seem quaint.