“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
The problem is, the billionaires are very much in favor of machines competing vs the humans for employment.
It’s one of those situations where even if you don’t care about competition with the machines, the system you depend on cares about it. It’s like if you don’t care about politics but politics cares about you.
Yeah, we definitely need a proper restructuring of economic incentives. Rewarding this competition towards existential crises isn’t doing much good to humanity. I think people are in a desperate need for treating philosophical problems seriously.
We don’t have to compete with the machines.
The problem is, the billionaires are very much in favor of machines competing vs the humans for employment.
It’s one of those situations where even if you don’t care about competition with the machines, the system you depend on cares about it. It’s like if you don’t care about politics but politics cares about you.
In other words, it’s a political problem of control, not a technological problem of capability.
Yeah, we definitely need a proper restructuring of economic incentives. Rewarding this competition towards existential crises isn’t doing much good to humanity. I think people are in a desperate need for treating philosophical problems seriously.