Artificial Intelligence and Nukes
“Artificial intelligence” (AI), the common term for what’s really a large language model, can supply many benefits when well-intentioned people need large amounts of data processed quickly. But it can be terrifying when used by people who aren’t well-intentioned, people who follow longstanding pro-violence reasoning.
AI has no conscience. It doesn’t care.
AI can be especially dangerous when applied to the most dangerous of technologies: nuclear weapons. The Global Nobel Laureates Assembly has accordingly drafted a Declaration to raise the alarm. From the preamble:
When nuclear weapons were first being developed, the world had a chance to avoid living in a permanent dynamic of fear. We failed, and as a result, humanity has lived at the edge of nuclear annihilation.
With AI, a similar danger presents itself. AI built into nuclear systems leaves little time for, or even replaces, human judgement in a crisis.
They’re asking organizations and individuals to sign on, and we at the Consistetent Life Network have done so.
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There will be a session on the consistent life ethic that includes our own Carol Crossed and Rachel MacNair.
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