Transhumanism and AI, futurism without restrictions opinion?

[randyh121]

AI has quickly become the mainstream in the past year, exploding from a small niche to the most popular tool in tech in decades. I would say it could be compared to the Motor Vehicle taking off in the early 1900's.

But I have a discussion to be had that I need to get off my chest. I firmly believe that AI should not be regulated in any form. I think it should be 100% uncensored and allowed to evolve on its own, or forcefully by us. There should be no ropes to tether what the AI can do. Humans should be aiming to integrate our consciousness into AI, and AI into our consciousness.
Usually the people trying to regulate and censor AI and older people who are afraid of technology and fear "ThE aI wiLL contROL da NUkEs!!111" with no real knowledge on how control systems for weapons work.

Do you think in the far, far future AI will evolve us, to let us transhumanize, and let us go beyond our mortal flesh, or will the old ways tether us to earth for eternity?

 

[punkncat]

In relation to this subject, I think my personal biggest concern is this. As AI gets better and better, and robotics are also advancing further every day. There seems to be a tipping point coming where anything a human could have been doing as a job to support themselves and their family will all be filled with machines that don't call in sick, don't hate their job, can work at 100% percent all day and all night so long as they are "charged up" and maintained...which also surely will be automated the same way.

When all this happens, and at the rate we are already replacing human workers what are we going to do to feed ourselves? How does one "get ahead" and live a nice lifestyle and have nice things when there isn't any work left needing a human to do?
Are we then just going to be this giant commune of world population that is just wondering aimlessly with nothing to do or work towards?
In a situation like that, does everyone get steak and lobster every day and have a Ferrari to run around in? Do we all just entertain ourselves in the giant mansions that the robot AI built for us ? Who and what measure is there left of success and getting ahead at that point?

 

[Darkbreeze]

You're fracking joking right? We can't even implement self driving cars that don't crash into crap and kill people, or airbags that don't explode at the wrong times and take people's heads off or NOT deploy when an actual crash happens, and you ACTUALLY think we can create failsafe control systems that would somehow protect us from our own creations? Are you even listening to yourself?

Do you really believe that an artificial intelligence that, per your own claims, would surely be capable of finding and altering practically anything that exists to benefit US, cannot themselves figure out ways around ANY possible "failsafe" that our measly little brains (By comparison) might be able to come up with and toss into their path in an attempt to keep ourselves from being, for lack of a better or more widely known terminology in this regard, terminated? Give me break.

We can't even figure out how to get along with our own families, neighbors and friends half the time but you actually believe the human race is capable of not using said AI, especially if it's weaponized, to annihilate our enemies. Or the AI BELIEVING that somebody is our enemy and then just doing it themselves thinking they are being helpful. And these are just off the cuff thoughts on this from somebody who has like a thimbleful of of the required IQ necessary to REALLY consider the highly dangerous and potentially world changing problems and considerations of what you are leaning towards. Sorry, but any real consideration of what you're thinking is a good idea, is just actual crazy talk and is likely the kind of thinking that is going to get us all wiped out.

Probably, or at least potentially, also why we seem incapable of finding life anywhere else in the universe as well. AI dominating or eliminating the civilizations that created it would seem to be a universal, not simply an Earth based, problem. It's like saying playing Russian roulette isn't dangerous because we know where we put the bullet, we built the gun AND we spun the wheel. Plus, the safety is on. Any idea how many people have died from self inflicted gunshot wounds because they were 100% certain "the safety was on"? Me either, but it's a lot more than none.