@danshipper: if you care about potential harm from AI this undoubtedly the biggest risk area, not a sci fi runaway scenario
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A tweet highlights a real-world AI harm scenario where a former Boko Haram commander used an AI chatbot to learn bomb-making, arguing this is a more urgent risk than sci-fi runaway scenarios.
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if you care about potential harm from AI this undoubtedly the biggest risk area, not a sci fi runaway scenario
Antonia Juelich (@AntoniaJuelich): In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he’d used it. He nodded.
“You type in the question… like ‘How can I build a bomb?’, and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We
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