This is just another step in the obsolescence of the unaugmented human being. AI can generate lifelike videos, books, personas. Humans trying to survive in AI society may as well be trying to get by in a crowd of T-1000 shapeshifters. The real question is, how would AIs establish their individuality and identity? Maybe through cryptographic means—maybe all the work that bitcoiners and blockchainers have done to develop trustless technology, is ultimately helping to make the world safe for the transhuman AIs of the near future. So, imagine a future of superintelligent AIs that can inhabit any physical form, and whose proof of identity rests on amplified versions of the abstract procedures our computers and bankcards already use when interacting with each other. That’s your AI society (maybe living in the shadow of truly godlike ASIs), which humans would understand about as well as pet mice understand human society.
I regret how useless this outburst of prophecy is, for someone trying to deal just with the current level of the AI tide. I don’t even assert that the future will definitely be as I just described it. But we all feel that most forms of communication don’t quite mean what they did, now that AI can generate them so easily. I’m just looking ahead at the possible long-term implications.
This is just another step in the obsolescence of the unaugmented human being. AI can generate lifelike videos, books, personas. Humans trying to survive in AI society may as well be trying to get by in a crowd of T-1000 shapeshifters. The real question is, how would AIs establish their individuality and identity? Maybe through cryptographic means—maybe all the work that bitcoiners and blockchainers have done to develop trustless technology, is ultimately helping to make the world safe for the transhuman AIs of the near future. So, imagine a future of superintelligent AIs that can inhabit any physical form, and whose proof of identity rests on amplified versions of the abstract procedures our computers and bankcards already use when interacting with each other. That’s your AI society (maybe living in the shadow of truly godlike ASIs), which humans would understand about as well as pet mice understand human society.
I regret how useless this outburst of prophecy is, for someone trying to deal just with the current level of the AI tide. I don’t even assert that the future will definitely be as I just described it. But we all feel that most forms of communication don’t quite mean what they did, now that AI can generate them so easily. I’m just looking ahead at the possible long-term implications.