Why your boss isn’t worried about AI – “can’t you just turn it off?”
(a note for technical folk)1 | read as pdf | Substack | LessWrong When it comes to understanding the dangers of AI systems, the general public has the worst kind of knowledge: that what you know for sure that just ain’t so. After 40 years of persistent badgering, the software industry has convinced the public that bugs can have disastrous consequences. This is great! It is good that people understand that software can result in real-world harm. Not only does the general public mostly understand the dangers, but they mostly understand that bugs can be fixed. It might be expensive, it might be difficult, but it can be done. The problem is that this understanding, when applied to AIs like ChatGPT, is completely wrong. The software that runs AI acts very differently to the software that…
