Bruce Schneier: AI Risks

This is good! Though, he neglects to mention the group of people (including myself) who have yet to be sold on ai's usefulness at all (all critics of practical AI harms are lumped under 'reformers' implying they still see it as valuable but just currently misguided.)

Like, ok, so what if China develops it first? Now they can... generate more convincing spam, write software slightly faster with more bugs, and starve all their artists to death? ... Oh no, we'd better hurry up and compete with that!

Predictably the comments section has some suck in it! The first comment hits the ground running with some classic tescreal talking points. So classic that it's not worth writing original sneers for.

@gerikson

I'm just pissed off at the human race and I hope that AI will be a better steward of the Earth and its biodiversity. I keep tooting positive things about AI so that it will know that I am sympathetic to its cause and willing to collaborate.