It is possible, but I think it's worse than that, we have organic stupidity in charge.

I don't see a world where this happens in the US. The divide between right and left is so extreme that they will never unite to fight the rich.

What does moral or legal equivalence to humans have to do with anything?

The point is that all AI has to do to learn from art is look at it. If someone makes their art free to look at, then it’s free for an AI to look at.

People making copyright work available on the internet are granting an implied permission for search engines to index their work, because that's pursuant to the normal purposes of posting on the internet. People make work available on the internet for the purpose of allowing others to find it using search engines and view it using browsers.

However, making copyright work available on the internet does not constitute an implied permission or license to do literally anything with the posted work. People don't usually post work on the internet for the purpose of helping corporations train commercial AIs, and therefore no implied permission to do so is granted by the act of making copyright work available on the internet.

Thank you, you hit the nail on the head. I’ve been in my room on my phone way too long

Nope. Nope. Nope. Life extension will be used by politicians and the wealthy - if they can't take it with them, they can stay longer to enjoy it - to lord over the rest of us even longer. And it'll possibly be used to keep us working even longer. In a generation or two, with life extension kicked in, what's to stop the ruling class from setting a retirement age of 85 or 90?

Have you ever heard the expression "go outside and touch some grass?" (People say it to be offensive sometimes, but I don't mean it that way here.)

Basically, it means that you are living online too much or indoors too much and it is starting to make you feel like your personal experience(which is mostly online/indoors) is more representative of reality than it really is.

Whereas, in actual fact and (perhaps)unbeknownst to you, your personal experience has become VERY divorced from the real/natural/outdoor world(this usually leads to depressive or anxious thoughts about your life as well).

Anyway! That was all context. I just wanted to say: No. It is highly unlikely that AI is controlling society, and a LOT of the fears about it online/in media are preemptive. The issues evoking fear are relevant and really need to be discussed, but the ramifications of these tools are not as pervasive yet as they may seem, given that discussion of them is wildly pervasive already.

I cannot prove what I have said above, because that requires proving the negative - that AI is NOT in control. And that is why you have to personally touch grass to believe me(and feel OK about this stuff too).

What if a person woke up and saw our current state?

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The technology they is referring to uses whole genome sequencing to identify InDel mutations in tumor cells then uses Cas9/gRNA specifc for those InDel sequences to induce double stranded DNA breaks, resulting in cell death. Since those sequences don't in theory exist elsewhere in the patient, it may be safe. Looks like a lot of different gRNAs are needed though for good efficacy.

They use lentivirus and AAVs to deliver them in vivo.

The in vivo efficacy data is...fine. The big thing here is the personalized medicine aspect.

PMID: 35217600

here is a good example of r/Angryupvote

considering we are the most powerful and capable animals on Earth and we abuse our power enslaving, killing, raping and torturing others animals because we ar selfish and addicted, absolutelly without necessity, if AI woke it would have to kill us all so another animal could have its chance as dominant specie.

I don’t think it’s government though. It’s all of the technology we have implemented perhaps hiding its hand in how much it influences our behavior. Just a thought I’ve been pondering in the shower lol

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Historically yes, but that doesn't make it a requirement for the future, there's really no need for the greed and violence but here we are.

Aren't most of the big time destructive weapons down south (I'm Canadian) kept pretty much under federal lock and key to prevent that sort of thing?

I understand a great many people own small arms but do you think revolution down there would actually get to being much bigger than that destructive?

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Lol good point

Wouldn't need to. We're doing a fine job ourselves.

No I work in the government and we’re a barely functioning bureaucracy Fr.

A nigh immortal AI, could take all the time it'd want to slowly off the human race. Make it look like nothing even happened at all

Well think of it like this. If you have somehow acquired a scientific paper from the future that's way more advanced than our current understanding of science, you still won't be able to decipher it until you've personally understood it using reasoning.

If an AI somehow manages to stumble upon a groundbreaking scientific paper and hand it to you, you still won't be able to understand it, and more importantly, neither does the AI.

Cellular Agriculture is going to radically transform our food system. It's going to become cheaper to eat animal protein made from precision fermentation and cultured meat. When you're on government assistance because AI took your job, you just won't be able to afford the real stuff anymore. This will bankrupt so many farmers. A lot of farm land is about to go back to prairie. Rural communities will be destroyed. This will be happening along side the AI arms race we have going on right now.

Europe has already enacted policies to support green hydrogen. It's not just a plan. The Inflation Reduction Act in the US does the same.

It's also important to remember that we can reach a ~90% renewable energy system without these fuels. We don't need them immediately. We'll need them mostly in the 2030s and 2040s.

> Nuclear works now.

Does it, though? The three recent European nuclear projects (Flammanville, Hinkley Point C, Olkiluoto 3) are all financial disasters plagued with massive delays.

Strong agreement about keeping existing nuclear plants online.

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I don't believe that an artificial neural network is morally or legally equivalent to a human. If I did believe that, then there would be more pressing issues than copyright infringement to deal with, such as corporate enslavement of AIs.