Re: Feeling happy to join the community.

On Sun, 2024-11-10 at 13:52 +0000, Polarian wrote:
> Can we not bring politics into the mailing list, I understand that
> some people are highly emotional after the US elections but making
> little digs like this on a public mailing list will cause division.
> 
> I am sure there are plenty of people who agree with you, but there is
> also plenty who disagree, which is exactly why political
> references/comments are a bad idea.

Hi,

that was possibly a purely fictitious example ;). A fictitious, simple-
minded person asks a bot and the fictitious bot gives a dangerous answer
that the simple-minded person might still believe. Maybe I wasn't
thinking about real elections, maybe that's why I didn't mention any
nations or names of real people.

The fact that it can be interpreted as if I had alluded to a real
election makes it all the more clear how dangerous blind faith in AI,
e.g. in the form of bots, can potentially be.

How likely is it that someone will provide a bot, free of charge or
affordable for everyone, that does the hard work of independent thinking
for people, without any ulterior motives and for purely altruistic
reasons?

Mind you, in a world where a grotesque, perhaps truly (perhaps not)
fictional example can be mistaken for an allusion to reality.

I apologize, but that's exactly the point! Can AI help detect cancer
earlier, assess climate models, in other words prevent disasters that
affect people? Sure it can, but AI has long been misused to cause people
distress. You can't make this kind of thing clear with nice examples
that don't make anyone uncomfortable.

Regards,
Ralf