• FuzzyDunlop@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    AI will come up with technological solutions to societal problems so effective and straightforward that it will raise the floor for everybody.

    • “Please scientists, tell us what to do to overcome global warming”
    • “You need to reduce your consumption, there is no other way”
    • “Wait, what? What do you mean?”
    • “We mean that you need to purchase less stuff”
    • “No, there must be an error, are they crazy? We need a real solution! Let’s ask the AI instead”
    • “Oh, AI, please tell us how we can overcome the challenge of global warming!”
    • “computing… You need to reduce your consumption”
    • “Nonono… wait a sec… opens the box… Look, it’s these damned scientists again!”
    • mkhoury@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Totally, it might also come up with persuasive methods to convince the corporations to reduce their consumption-- giving them an alternate revenue source, giving them tech that makes the climate effect of consumption drastically lower, finding ways to resolve the Moloch games in satisfactory manner, etc. These are just examples. I think AI might give us an opportunity to reset some of our deep human societal dynamics, just like the Industrial Revolution did. And hopefully it can do it in a virtuous cycle manner.