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this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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right...the problem isn't the chatbot, it's the people giving the chatbot power and the ability to affect the real world.
thought experiment: I'm paranoid about home security, so I set up a booby-trap in my front yard, such that if someone walks through a laser tripwire they get shot with a gun.
if it shoots a UPS delivery driver, I am obviously the person culpable for that.
now, I add a camera to the setup, and configure an "AI" to detect people dressed in UPS uniforms and avoid pulling the trigger in that case.
but my "AI" is buggy, so a UPS driver gets shot anyway.
if a news article about that claimed "AI attempts to kill UPS driver" it would obviously be bullshit.
the actual problem is that I took a loaded gun and gave a computer program the ability to pull the trigger. it doesn't really matter whether that computer program was 100 lines of Python running on a Raspberry Pi or an "AI" running on 100 GPUs in some datacenter somewhere.
No, you completely missed the point. I don't disagree with any of that. I think you are right. It just doesn't matter. At all. If an AI is made by thousands of people over the course of a decade and run in a billion dollar data center no one will ever be held accountable for it's actions. There is no intent in the AI or in the inhuman systems of humans that led to its creation.
I'm not arguing that AIs have intent. I'm arguing that talking about the "intent" is a dangerous distraction from talking about what is happening and what we could do to prevent it.