Doomsday Clock

[Rev. Rye]

Hi TGN,

Thanks for the thoughts.

I think the author chose poor hypotheticals to discuss the misuse of ai.  

That seems true. They are probably the ones that he feels most concerned about. Would those uses actually cause outbreaks of violence? I would hope not. Likely, my hope, is that there will be some initial instances, like we’ve been seeing, they will be debunked and rational people will be on the alert going forward. I could certainly see some, more irrational, people buying into these kinds of deep fakes. They already buy into silly stuff without deep fakes.

I saw that there are governments trying to outlaw the use of AI in political campaigns. Maybe that will help.

The examples they gave may be the ones the author is most concerned with, but they’re also examples where deepfakes would be unnecessary. Worrying about deepfakes of Trump urging supporters to storm the Supreme Court or White House is kind of superfluous when you remember that we already have genuine footage (broadcasted live on multiple sources) of Trump doing exactly that for the Capitol on January 6.





And we also know he’s made it abundantly clear that he feels no remorse for what happened that day.