Comparing AI to our other technologies to assess risk is flawed. AI will create technologies that we cannot; so we should not compare them to those we could.

Interesting take. 

(1) Would it not also have been applicable to computing generally? Or the internet? Or steam?
(2) If we cannot compare the future to the past, to what should we compare it?

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No. AI will literally create technologies. It’s intelligence. We cannot compare it. Probably the best effort would be to a hypothetical more-intelligent species, but AI doesn’t have the limitations.

i actually feel the complete opposite, that ai can be compared to a calculator in that it can perform some tasks better but others not. comparing it to super intelligence severely underestimates the human minds potential, especially considering our incomplete understanding of its fundamental processes.

The human mind’s potential is pretty well bounded by its biology. For example, how fast can a human consume the information in the library of congress?

Imagine a language where the complete works of Tolstoy are a word. Of course, an intelligence that could use such a language wouldn’t use words, but to it, our language would be grunts.

I’m talking about a future, not the present state of things.

right, calculators do math faster than us too. llms are basically calculators for languages, both natural and artificial