Wednesday, April 10, 2024

In the same way the invention of the Automobile and the plane were also dangerous like artificial intelligence

It's debatable whether we can make Artificial intelligence as safe as we have made planes and Automobiles over the years. However, likely we are going to try. 

If you look at early movies or pictures of all the plane crashes and all the traffic accidents while people made things safer you will begin to understand what I'm talking about. Even now if you see what Artificial intelligence in the form of "autopilot" in Cars or planes does to people's lives it makes one pause.

For example:

Fatal crash totals in cars and trucks in U.S.: There were 39,508 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2021 in which 42,939 deaths occurred.
 
Here are deaths in planes:
Reflecting this increase in miles flown, preliminary estimates of the total number of accidents involving a U.S. registered civilian aircraft increased from 1,220 in 2021 to 1,277 in 2022. The number of civil aviation deaths decreased from 373 in 2021 to 358 in 2022.

Home & Community Safety: Airplane Crashes - Injury Facts

National Safety Council
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org › ... › Safety Topics
 
If you combine the deaths from plane Crashes and from Car and truck crashes I think you have to expect about this number of fatalities or more directly related to artificial intelligence in the U.S. too.
However, you are going to have companies involved in Artificial intelligence trying to legally and in other ways cover up these deaths as much as they are capable of in order to stay in business too.
I think understanding this is necessary for fully understanding the problem of Artificial intelligence.
And you have to estimate that the problems associated with artificial intelligence likely will be 5 to 10 times as bad in Third World Countries simply because of the lack of useful laws protecting people from Artificial intelligence. 

So, on the one hand Artificial intelligence might lead to lifespans of 100 to 300 years for people who could afford to pay for the medical breakthroughs Artificial intelligence might create. However, just like planes and cars have killed a lot of people since around 1900 I think we need to prepare for many deaths from spinoffs of Artificial intelligence too as we learn how to navigate it in similar ways to how many people died from car and truck and bus and plane crashes since 1900 too.
 

 

 

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