I believe the reason people at the top keep saying stuff like “democratize AI” is because the concept of democracy has good mouthfeel and PR optics, even if heavily eroded by platform censorship, algorithms controlling what you see, news narratives, marketing-and-ads-to-push-perspectives, think tanks and PR teams coining phrases like ‘carbon footprint’, etc.
I also think it provides a feeling of “this is just normal technology, totally will not displace jobs or cause catastrophes”.
That being said, as other comments here say that “liberalism” is more exact as what this article is pointing to, I do hope an ASI would care about the experience of other conscious beings, even if their actual solutions may be far below competence in how to truly fix it. That is after all what many people care about with the worry of ‘misalignment’, that some deeply important quality in the current human world is lost in whatever recreation of society ASI lands on.
I believe the reason people at the top keep saying stuff like “democratize AI” is because the concept of democracy has good mouthfeel and PR optics, even if heavily eroded by platform censorship, algorithms controlling what you see, news narratives, marketing-and-ads-to-push-perspectives, think tanks and PR teams coining phrases like ‘carbon footprint’, etc.
I also think it provides a feeling of “this is just normal technology, totally will not displace jobs or cause catastrophes”.
That being said, as other comments here say that “liberalism” is more exact as what this article is pointing to, I do hope an ASI would care about the experience of other conscious beings, even if their actual solutions may be far below competence in how to truly fix it. That is after all what many people care about with the worry of ‘misalignment’, that some deeply important quality in the current human world is lost in whatever recreation of society ASI lands on.