Into Current: AI Paradise for Humanity, Discussed by Israeli Prime Minister, OpenAI President, MIT Prof, and Elon Musk
On video: "AI Roundtable" on Benjamin Netanyahu's Twitter/X
Introduction: It’s about AI. I’ve just watched the video "AI Roundtable” on Benjamin Netanyahu’s Twitter/X, dated 9/18.
1-a. I might not pronounce all other names clearly enough. If that is the case, please note:
Greg Brockman, President and co-founder of OpenAI
Max Tegmark, Professor at MIT
Elon Musk
2. The pivotal question came down onto what human beings are. What makes humans as to be, of not ought to be?
When the extinction of human beings in the future brought by AI must not have meant the physical disappearance of human beings. The obvious indication was the loss of humanity.
Brockman summed up and talked about the tremendous benefits the world would get from AI developments as potentially possible and inevitable risks if cautious regulations are not taken. Overall, Musk agreed upon this point more than any other participants, I saw, but his consistent stance on the vision for a somewhat dreamy future illustrated the discussion as unique in comparaison to other talks, conversations, discussions on AI, done and viewable online. A heavenly world made and occupied by hybrid cyborgs, whose intelligence and physical faculties are no more artificiel but become natural to fit into the paradise, enjoy whatever they want with no [undesired] obligations. Netanyahu seemed to be amused by the Elon vision, so was I very much.
Tegmark shaped the discussion to modulate and, in my view, he was the most assuring person among four for a general audience like me. I do not, of course, mean that other three were odd on the road, but, well… think please, one is Israeli prime minister, the other; President of OpenAI, and the other; Elon Musk. I will tune in for them, even if they talk about their postal stamp collections.
The sharpest point I found was a brief moment when Tegmark tried to cut into Israeli-Palenstinian conflicts in an implication, whether resolvable by AI, while he did not say it concretely nor elaborate. The issue is not easy matter at all, in fact. When Netanyahu used the term “dominance” (of AI) which would bring [gigantesque] monopolizations by a few countries, he specifically point out the economic unbalance which would be amplified in the world more than ever. Who said what matters a lot for me. The market of weapons will be soon dominated by AI and machine technologies such as drones. The dominance of markets includes military technologies for territorial controles.
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2-a. Heavenly tree or are we trees?
Musk’s example was funny and a hit. Analogically, the slowness of human beings’ response to AI is equivalent to the gap in speed between human conversations and trees’ growth. AI eager to help a human says “what do you want? Tell me” and the waiting time for AI to get a response is as slow as the time when we watch a tree to grow from the soil. I had no idea AI life (?) and the level of its engagement into human interactions require such a patience for AI.
The tree indicated by Netanyahu was the heavenly tree, the cause of the fall of humanity. The question lingered in the discussion for awhile: then, how to define human beings? What are we? What made us to be humans? No toils, no worries, no struggles, such conditions are most desired as heavenly [while humans are alive]? Even death could be optional to be one’s choice. Netanyahu implied strongly our humanity should be understood as in the Divine prediction as contractual promise. Such is my interpretation. You would take or have taken his words differently. What AI is and would be for us are the question in recurrence everywhere today with or without God to be mentioned.
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I stop being a spoiler in case you have not yet watched the video. So this segment is to wrap up: