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Yes, exactly. There are a couple of ways to think about this. One is that superintelligence could be really important because it could facilitate the realization of the TESCREAL vision of the future. TESCREALists tend to think of everything as an engineering problem. So the reasoning is that if we have a superintelligence, then we have a super-engineer. If we have a super-engineer, then we can engineer paradise, which is a term that they literally use.
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
jacobin.com
When LLMs are promoted as something consumers would adopt voluntarily, it serves as an alibi for the technology’s punitive and exploitative functionality. Sometimes the promise is that generative AI will level the playing field, as with claims that the technology will “democratize” content creation or coding skills. But more typically the emphasis is on how it will save consumers effort — it will make you feel like a boss over some fully compliant servant who does the work for you.
Summaries Without Originals
Rob Horning
Note that this does not imply that we necessarily think our Generative AI models are conscious. We likely address them "as if" they were another, what Sweeney (2023) describes as a fictional dualism (also see Coeckelbergh 2011; Krueger & Osler 2022; Krueger & Roberts 2024; Roberts & Krueger 2022).
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