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Comment by esafak | Hacker News Reader

I think it is so reckless and unethical that AI companies are not spending good money on answering the political, social, economical, moral questions that they are raising.

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The AI companies will become part of govenment in the way banks have. They'll have very close ties and effectively govern in all but name.

Would you rather have the AI companies answer those questions, or your elected government?

Fwiw, the AI companies have been saying a lot about these questions should be answered. Whether you want their answers is another story.

They have to act together. Universities should take part too. Let's get these national and international forums started.

Isn't that what's happening?

For example, https://www.eit.europa.eu/news-events/events/international-a...

What would you have them do that they are not currently doing exactly?

Taking part would be a start! All the major players -- Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google -- are missing from https://global-aiconference.com/#speakers

Right, makes sense, if they just spent a bunch of money they could answer all of those "political, social, economical, moral questions". All of these unprecedented sociological and labor market changes flying towards us are trivially solvable, we just need to... what, hire a few dozen economists? Fund a team of philosophers to think about it really hard for a few months?

You are right; a bunch of trillion dollar companies that are cracking artificial intelligence couldn't possibly muster the resources to solve such problems, so they ought to plow full steam ahead and let everyone else worry about the fallout.

So do you have any thoughts on how they could "solve such problems" or are we unironically going for the "hire a team of philosophers and hope they can just think it out really hard"?

It's so sad that you've got more downvotes than upvotes

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