Linus Tech Tips Discussion

 Research shows that AI Tech Billionaires subscribe to a new age form of eugenics referred to as TESCREAL Summary In a new vlog by tech reporter of NYT and Washington Post she highlights the dangers of the current race to AGI. Her reporting is mostly based on research papers published by the DIAR institute which has several papers/videos available on their main site.   Quotes Quote While organizations working to build AGI discuss the need for “AI safety” and note that “misaligned” AGI — that is, an “intelligent” system with “values” that are misaligned with “our” values — can pose an “existential risk” to humanity [9], we argue that this notion of safety is rooted in the utopian-apocalyptic visions of the TESCREAL bundle inherited from first-wave eugenicists. But TESCREALists have influenced policy-makers and researchers who may not be aligned with these utopian ideals into prioritizing the AGI agenda, while creating unsafe products, evading accountability, and siphoning resources away from organizations around the world building task-specific models that serve the needs of specific communities. Quote I investigated the dangerous worldview known as TESCREALism that has taken hold across the world’s most powerful tech companies, from OpenAI to Tesla. It’s the belief that biological humans are flawed and temporary, and that a post-human future dominated by AGI (artificial general intelligence) is both inevitable and desirable. My thoughts While it has been well known that people like Peter Thiel have unconventional beliefs, this research puts more a head on the point. One of my friends who was interviewed in an LTT video on robotics has noted the off the wall beliefs of some in the industry. Family members also run a research forum and specialize in AI an have noted that "AI is a mire of greed, ambition and fantasy." With the publishing of this paper it shows how dangerous having money in the hands of a few who have free range to shape society to their will, as well as political leadership uninterested in reigning in these ambitions. It highlights the need for better regulation in AI, the need for better governance systems, the balancing of legal rights between the wealthy few and the rest of the society, and the need for AI to be aligned more with the needs of society to ahem. NOT KILL US. AI tools should be seen as that and be used more along the lines that positive visions of the future like in (not the current) Star Trek ideologies. Also a side note, it would seem that this is history repeating itself with the tech billionaires having anti-social views much like how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates's shared trouble in their youth and upbringing which lead them to produce systems that were closed source and use que