Post #2856793

2026-05-19 03:33 UTC

Yes, you can mitigate any risk you can think of with the right planning, but these are new risks of arbitrary severity, from trivial to devastating, the did not exist at all before. Previous systems had risks, but they were different, more limited in scope, and accounted for. It may be true that some of these systems are worth those new risks and the planning necessary to find and mitigate them all, but we have to do that hard work and be real with ourselves, rather than hand-wave them away because of the potentially thrilling prospects.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-05-19 12:49

> but these are new risks of arbitrary severity, from trivial to devastating, that did not exist at all before I disagree. The risks of arbitrary severity are already there, we have just slowly evolved into handling them how we handle them now, learned (sometimes) from the mistakes either how to handle them better or just accept the consequences as "how things are." So, I do agree that rapid switching to letting AI handle things will mis-handle the old risks in new and unanticipated ways. Maybe if AI helps us actually build a space elevator or functional fusion Tokamaks or other things like that then that will be creating significant new risks with their own new issues. >we have to do that hard work and be real with ourselves, rather than hand-wave them away because of the potentially thrilling prospects. AI is just the latest shiny in a long list of shinies that enthusiastic entreprenuers have hand-waved all the hard work around the real challenges away about. I think self driving cars are a pretty good example of how this "disaster waiting to happen" will really roll out - things like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYkv6jvTpCc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg etc. Is it regrettable that Elaine died? Yes - right along with the other 6000+ pedestrians killed by human drivers that year in the US alone.

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