'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight amid threats of climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, AI

[awittyusername@lemmy.world]

AI is just a reflection of humanity.

[conditional_soup@lemm.ee]

Yeah, tbh, it seems like it should be a lot closer to midnight. If things are this bad and we're still over a minute, what's it going to take?

[spaniard@lemmy.world]

We don't have AI.

[spaniard@lemmy.world]

If (or when) we achieve the technological singularity (we aren't even close, current AI is just marketing) they will be able to lay down a plan to fix anything without making mistakes, they will predict the consequences of actions in detail, ours or theirs (some thing are more difficult like a volcano exploding).

Handling is not necessary they could be able to just take it, the only way to stop them would be to cut electricity I guess.

But the thing is not the current marketing term for AI, we don't have AI.

[gamechld@lemmy.world]

Oh I never knew that!

[t156@lemmy.world]

Perhaps even thrice.

[wabafee@lemmy.world]

Go to 12 already

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

Yeah. To be clear, I don't know if they called it a scale change, but "we need to start considering more, weaker crises because there aren't big ones anymore" was the gist.

[gamechld@lemmy.world]

Oh I guess that makes sense in a post superpower era. Everything became smaller proxy conflicts.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

To be clear, the thinking at the time was more like an eternal one-superpower era. There was a guy who literally wrote an essay called "The End Of History?" that basically talked about less and less conflict happening, and everything gradually becoming a capitalist democracy in the image of the US.