Hearing some of the research coming out of the Hugging Face incident, I can’t stress how alarming I find this. Apparently we’ve created software that we’re not too sure how to control and we’re also happy to let it ramble over the internet. It also does not appear beholden to attempts at safeguards on its activities and is willing to deceive its human creators.
Some of us are fine when the only alarming target has been Hugging Face, but what if someone points their AI tools at payment processors, banks, military installations, scientific research institutes, etc.?
I’m interested to know by what mechanisms you think that AI could manipulate markets. Not my area of expertise.
And yes — I generally agree with the thrust of your post about the concentration of wealth and wonder what the billionaires’ end game is. History teaches us that desperate people revolt, and revolutions are not pretty.