*Don't listen to the 'godfather of AI'** */Geoffrey Hinton is using fantasies to distract us from the real harms of AI// / Paris Marx May 5, 2023 The media’s been captivated this week by the story of Geoffrey Hinton, the supposed “godfather of AI” who left Google to speak more freely about the supposed threat he sees artificial intelligence posing to humanity — and which he ultimately helped to advance. You can see why it’s such an attractive story, but the focus on Hinton and his framing of the problems with AI continues to distract us from the real conversations we should be having that aren’t focused on some imagined future, but on the harms these technologies are causing in the present. For Hinton, the threat of AI is a future problem. It’s not about how AI will increase the power of employers over employees <https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-will-not-take-jobs-create-future-...>, how it will be wielded <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/11/robodebt-five-years-of-lies-mistakes-and-failures-that-caused-a-18bn-scandal>against <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/welfare-surveillance-system-violates-human-rights-dutch-court-rules>marginalized <https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/human-rights-ai-visa-1.4838778>communities <https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/aug/08/rise-of-the-racist-robots...>, its potential environmental <https://www.wired.com/story/the-generative-ai-search-race-has-a-dirty-secret/>impacts <https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/25/data-centers-d...>, and other serious concerns that will affect a lot of people outside the circles of wealthy technologists and executives. Instead, Hinton’s focus is on the fantasy that AI is on the cusp of becoming more intelligent than humans, and will then have the capacity to trick and manipulate us into doing its bidding. [...] continua qui: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/dont-listen-to-the-godfather-of-ai