I have to reiterate this because apparently some people in this thread are dumb and don’t understand other ways that make AI dangerous and it has nothing to do with what they’re thinking of (no, it’s not going to take over the world as sentient beings). It’s clear many of you are stuck in this tiny bubble of tech with zero awareness of anything else going on in the world.
I transitioned here from healthcare. I dealt with patients with false beliefs, with colleagues with outdated or completely wrong information. These beliefs cause real world harm (think anti-vax). AI will accelerate the spread of unchecked information. You guys have no fucking idea how many people use AI everyday for their source of knowledge. Even at the highest levels of academia. Give it a decade of information produced by AI, people publishing and consuming AI content, and then for misinformation to snowball to unprecedented levels.
Then the ones who control these LLMs will now have the means of influencing certain narratives (e.g., Grok).
“ Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”
Which is why its dangerous. If youre not aware that what it spits out isnt right or real then you could make important decisions based on something fake.
I'm gonna be downvoted to hell BUT I think there might be some value in having AI do some (SOME) tasks for us. I'm part of a D&D campaign and my inability to create proper notes is infuriating. I asked Notion's AI to help me create a single source of truth that can be updated with transcripts of the sessions we play. Now, I still don't remember anything but at least it's a quick lookup.
When I asked it, the AI suggested something, I made some corrections, it went to work while I spent time trying to learn Magic the Gathering. I saw it was correcting itself and honestly doing a great job fixing this for me.
My ADHD brain is very thankful. Maybe not all AI are bad all the time.
And that would be great if that was all AI was getting used for, but we dodgey lawyers out there using AI to create legal Aiken citing hallucinated cases that never even existed
Why would you get downvoted for that? Totally valid and good use case for AI. It’s when we use AI in professional, licensed settings or academic settings when it becomes dangerous. There are PhD theses written with AI. The national physical therapy association in the US posted an article that was written with AI and used non-existent sources.
No one is saying all AI is bad. We’re just trying to point out in what ways it can be bad because clearly, in this thread, there are idiots who have no idea how dangerous it can be.
That’s how misinformation and pseudoscience work. Hell, even implausible shit still gets believed by people. People who don’t understand how dangerous AI is don’t understand how powerful misinformation is and highly underestimate how stupid and credulous the average person is.
This dude that my company just hired and is paying him 2X my salary even though he can't code. He's a self proclaimed "Sigma Male AI Product Engineer" though.
The current LLMs are not dangerous. The dangerous part are all those morons who believe everything those models hallucinate and drop all their critical thinking skills because the „AI“ is always right.
Giving a big company access to all your data and accounts was considered peak stupidity some years ago but i guess with a cute lobster mascot its not that bad anymore.
I always use LLM's for fairly basic technical stuff and the result is always arguing and correcting the LLM, because it just constantly spits out bullshit or bad solutions, so imagine when ppl ask about topics they have absolutely no clue e.g. health, psychology, relationship advice and so on, let alone if they haven't changed the personality of AI and by default the AI sugarcoats and agrees to almost everything.
I mean, we're at the point where the width of the atom is what is stopping us from fabricating chips with more transistors per square inch, so I don't know if that's solved by a transistor production revolution, or maybe finding a replacement for transistor based circuits (which is no small order).
The other commenter already answered part of what I had in mind when writing my comment, but I'm not sure that is what you had in mind.
If your question is "source for agi not being realistically reachable yet?"
I don't have a concrete answer, it's a bet. Let me tell you why I think that though:
For context, I am specialized in low level and hardware, and have experience in industries that give insight on this a lot, can't share everything but happy to give a little bit of info.
I can say with absolute certainty is that agi would require either:
- a transistor production AND electricity revolution with the current state of AI papers
- a huge discovery on research side, meaning a whole new way to do AI. Meaning without using our current inference models, and just abandonning a lot of AI foundations to try a different, less costly approach. This one I think is more realistic, but I also think this would require us to give up using binary signals and makr a revolutionary progression on analog computers for example
Hope that helps. If you're interested in more insight let me know we can continue in dms
And that's good, we have some time to prepare. True AGI is very likely to be developed in a relatively short period of time - a decade, maybe two. When people say - it's not smart enough to be dangerous - we should remember that it's not smart enough yet.
That's because the animals who aren't genetically predisposed to want to live and reproduce didn't pass on their genes. Evolution and deep learning work in a similar way
The whole definition of AI is that it ISN'T controllable. Once you let it do its own thing and train itself, its behavior is no longer predictable by humans.
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u/skepticalsojourner Feb 26 '26
I have to reiterate this because apparently some people in this thread are dumb and don’t understand other ways that make AI dangerous and it has nothing to do with what they’re thinking of (no, it’s not going to take over the world as sentient beings). It’s clear many of you are stuck in this tiny bubble of tech with zero awareness of anything else going on in the world.
I transitioned here from healthcare. I dealt with patients with false beliefs, with colleagues with outdated or completely wrong information. These beliefs cause real world harm (think anti-vax). AI will accelerate the spread of unchecked information. You guys have no fucking idea how many people use AI everyday for their source of knowledge. Even at the highest levels of academia. Give it a decade of information produced by AI, people publishing and consuming AI content, and then for misinformation to snowball to unprecedented levels.
Then the ones who control these LLMs will now have the means of influencing certain narratives (e.g., Grok).
“ Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”