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Is your comment meant to be making fun of the people who think AI is doing no harm? The world is considerably worse because of AI than the effects of beer and

• newsomix9xl 25d ago
  Last time I checked alcoholism is heavily linked to cancer, crime and violence, birth defects, and poverty. Cigarettes cause cardiovascular issues and preventable deaths. I am not aware of a single death due to AI, or any cancer, or physical harms. Maybe I missed it? I believe AI has "facilitated fraud" by allowing already existing bad actors to make more plausible scams, but that is not an AI harm, any more than the phone company being used by the Mafia to order murders being a "telephone harm" (both are tragic, as should go without saying). There are claims that AI has harmed people by encouraging their delusions. I am not convinced that these claims have merit (maybe they do, who knows?). AI has apparently enabled cheating on a vast scale and test scores have gone down. I dont think that's an AI problem: that's an ethics and school administration problem (some teachers create AI traps to punish students, or have live tests, etc to stymie AI cheating - which is to say they actually adapt to the technology landscape). I am not making fun of anyone. AI is not harming society, threatening civilization, raising electricity prices, or threatening massive job loss. Seriously.