Dune’s “Butlerian Jihad” seemed like an interesting theory.
Now I’m watching Google test censorship algorithms based on flagged comments on sites like Huffington Post. You know the data set is biased far left wing, but they’ll be able to say “oh, it is unbiased, the computer censored it, it is all logical”. The biases in the data sets and further bias from liberal moderators builds in the far left bias, and they deny it IS biased.
Then there are the medical systems that already use the quality of life years metric, that it isn’t as bad if you die past 65 or under the age of 5. Thus the “efficiency” and “moral” cost saving solutions to not do cancer screenings past certain ages and do it less often if you’re old, to let babies die that we don’t think their lives are worth it.
Now imagine such a system with broader inputs.
One episode of Gene Roddenberry’s “Andromeda” had people revolting against an AI because its solutions were without compassion, as in “to cheapest way to contain the pandemic is kill the infected”, and its solution to unhappy people who wanted things to change was to kill the critics to maintain social order.
Liberals say conservatives are crazy, will the default solution be to ban them from owning guns because they are flagged as crazy once they admit their ideology? Or refusing to let them have children and/or recommending abortion because they are “crazy”? They also think conservatives are stupid, so that could be used against them, too.
We’ve already had the federal government weaponize the IRS to deny tax exempt status to conservative groups, audit people as punishment and leak sensitive details. Now imagine the ability to weaponize medical care, something they’ve started to do in the UK punishing a pro-life protestor by saying we won’t treat you for anything unless life threatening (legally required).
Do you get denied care or wait listed to the same effect if flagged as a dissident? I can certainly imagine AIs programmed to devalue politically incorrect people for the reasons I listed above, when it already devalues people based on age.
And if all of this is decided by a “computer” when the programmers’ biases are proven per big tech’s systematic censorship of conservatives, you know anything they create will be just as biased against US.
Example:
Apple, Twitter, Google, Instagram collude to defeat Trump
http://observer.com/2016/08/tech-companies-apple-twitter-google-and-instagram-collude-to-defeat-trump/
I was suggesting a process even beyond that.
There was a time where you could imagine a limit based on the ability of a person/programmer to consume the available learning based on time, and on the constraints of human knowledge.
Now, virtually all information is available in the blink of an eye. Using systems based on the “Scientific Method” new age computers will be able to posit theories, test them, and create “new” information on a scale that up to now is unimaginable.
And when it uploads that to the “cloud” other machines that are learning will immediately add that to the knowledge base.
And the cycle would repeat, at the speed of light.
If this knowledge is being created for our benefit it will be great.
If the machines really start to do this, it will not take long before they simply stop paying attention to us.