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The only thing dangerous about AI is people believing the hype and thinking it can actually think and do things it can't do at all. LLMs, flock cameras etc. are just MENACE matchbox computers at their core. And it's dangerous that governments and CEOs are just blindly relying on whatever crap they pump out without human supervision.
But! What if a computer could reproduce all the same phenomenon as a brain?
Do we have any reason to think this might be the case? Not really. But. We also (maybe) have no reason to think this isn't the case. What else are we gonna spend trillions gambling on? An ecosystem capable of supporting mammals? Don't make me laugh!
Its dangerous to our future, our ecosystem and our way of life even if the stupid things can't think.
I agree that the amount of water and electricity these AI centers gobble up is a concern. But I don't know what you mean by our way of life. Personally I think it's very useful when judiciously used. It's dangerous if NASA haphazardly tosses AI generated code into the OS for a rocket going on a moon mission. But to quickly generate a meme or YT thumbnail is harmless.
Companies are the ones that will be using it the most, and they won't limit themselves. As the technology improves humans will be thrown out of creative fields or turned from creators to middle managers. Human expression has been innately human for all of history until now, that is what is threatened. We will no longer connect with each other through art. This productivity cult kills all, what are we even being productive for, what is the end goal?
AI can't function without human input. AI can't think and it can't create. It just stick puzzle pieces together. And we are where it gets its puzzle pieces from. If humans are thrown out of creative fields, AI will feed on itself, and produce a bunch of bizarre garbage. More so than it already does. The companies that understand this will survive. The companies that don't will go bankrupt.