GPR (not to be confused with GPT) -
It's ridiculous. Suddenly, I feel more akin to that Chinese guy who GE'd some babies ... or the biohackers growing glowing dogs in their shed. You can't control people with open letters and calls to "good behavior".
It is definitely "toothless" a bit like the "thoughts and prayers" we throw at school shootings... (nearly daily now?)
and then we have the Doomsday Clock <https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/>... which added climate change to it's calculus of doom but haven't tossed AI (et al.) in yet.
We *do* seem to have some (weak/partial/??) extant mechanisms for collective self-regulation, but at some level, I think it always grounds out in *some* form of coercion at some scale? I don't think authors of Open Letters think that they their pre/pro-scriptions will be followed as a direct consequence. But *does* the public airing of a "dire caution" have any feedback effect, or is it in fact just "meh"?
I'm a Luddite at heart so their appeal appealed to me, but thjen *I'm* not developing these tools (even if I am engaged in guerilla "socratic engineering")!
meh, - Steve
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