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AI (or more properly, ML) is all around us and creating value everywhere. This is true whether or not we EVER reach AGI. Honestly, I stop reading/listening whenever I read/hear mention of AGI.

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Also causing lots of harm, too, e.g. police departments using AI systems that get the wrong suspect.

Ideally your court system does not permit AI testimony.

The damage is done by these systems long before any courts get involved.

Court dates can be a long time after the initial arrest. Some people have been held months to years in pre-court jail, even after they've been cleared of any wrong doing, because they can't afford the release fee. But even a few days could lose you your job, your kids if you're a single parent, your car or housing if you miss a payment, etc.

As per usual people blaming the tool when they should blame the tools using the tool.

The fault lies with humans using AI for something sensitive, without having the AI pass through certification etc. Part of the problem is glacial pace of laws around things, but that's nothing new isn't it; us humans being whiny, argumentative, inefficient, emotional meat bags about every little thing. I wonder, once we do make AGI, if it will wonder why it took us so damn long to tax the disgustingly wealthy, implement ww public healthcare, UBI, etc and solve the housing crisis by gasp building more houses...

We evolved, so our deep, deep underlying motivations pretty much always circulate around self-preservation and reproduction (resource contention).

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