AI and other advanced technology will be the death of humanity if people don't unanimously realize the dangers. It's like giving everyone a nuclear weapon. Art and entertainment is of no importance to the discussion of AI, and the loss of jobs is not very important in comparison to the existential threat either. Enjoy your AI while it lasts, human.
Exactly. There's not even a pretence of consent of the governed. Never has been. People don't have the faintest understanding of what consent of the governed would actually look like. They hear words but don't understand them or take them seriously.
We should have the technology so we can develop countermeasures to it? With that kind of logic where do you draw the line? It's a slippery slope to using it on humans and using it more frequently as an excuse to develop better countermeasures to it. And obviously our governments and corporations aren't interested in developing countermeasures, they just want to use it for control and profit.
Arms races are bad and shouldn't be encouraged. They escalate conflict and accelerate development of weapons. At this late stage of the technology game there's no point trying to get ahead of China if it means humanity goes almost extinct from nuclear radiation or self-replicating vaccines. It's fighting over a rapidly shrinking pie.
Sounds like 1000 times more harm than good. Humans are not software to be edited or commodities to be grown in a lab and sold. There are lines that shouldn't be crossed no matter how many people it would allegedly help. Much more loss than benefit and ends don't justify means anyway.
Once AI is able to do scientific reasoning (and especially once it is able to make things too, although this isn't necessary) it will very quickly be able to design weapons of mass destruction that can be made from everyday materials or without arousing suspicion. There are protein printing services that could be used to create innocuous looking proteins that together form a virus designed to be more infectious than the flu and slowly killing the patient with 100% mortality. Imagine if also you could modify your microwave to turn it into a nuclear bomb capable of destroying all life on earth. Or if we invent nanoprinters and AI designs self-replicating nanobots that can easily be printed and take over the whole planet and live inside everyone.
Considering how things get cheaper and easier to make with technological advances and that it only took a few hundred years of science to get nuclear weapons capable of destroying cities and engineer viruses capable of infecting over 70% of people, AI that works at a similar level of intelligence but millions of times faster will design infinitely more deadly things in under a year. Even assuming there are no robots to do the AI's scientific experiments or make the technology, humans will do that part for them over a decade or two. Then any of the million psychos who want to see the world burn can live his dream and it's bye bye humanity.