I work in the AI world and understand a lot of reasons to hate AI (like how every company is trying to ram it down people’s throats). However I am genuinely curious why the hate is so popular, and what arguments/opinions people have, and would like to hear the discussion.
Even advertising, which is forced on everyone and disliked, doesn’t seem to get as vocal a response for hate.
Why do you hate AI? Why do you think the hate is so vocal/common/strong?
After reading comments:
I am thinking it’s simply:
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Have aspects that people can strongly dislike eg the points people list.
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Be forced into everyone’s life and media constantly.
Like a similar psychological phenomenon to when Nickelback was hated, but magnified by being more serious and grounded.
I think that we should also be careful with where the hate is directed, since modelling learning of distributed systems at scale is very essential science and technology to be able to understand biology, physics, neuroscience, etc. The only way humanity currently scales new technologies unfortunately is through the capital machine, and the scale is a necessary component of this science.
Is neuroscience evil? How do you think humans understand more about the brain without the same knowledge? You can’t get there from proteins and biology and equations, at some point you have to start simulating large distributed systems of computation and learning.
Also I do understand a list of points of why it’s not liked as some posts have listed, just wondering if someone has insight onto why the hate seems to stick greater than the sum of those lists.
I’m sure you realize that most of what you say about morals is widely applicable to most technological revolutions that we accept. What is special about “AI” or is it an alignment point to signal things?