Vitalik Buterin thinks AI may surpass humans, community responds

cointelegraph.com:

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin’s blog post highlighting the threats he sees artificial intelligence (AI) could pose to humanity has attracted many fiery responses from AI and blockchain community members.

On Nov. 27, Buterin published a blog post titled My techno-optimism, which discussed how AI is “fundamentally different” from other inventions like guns, airplanes, and social media. Furthermore, Buterin explained that it could develop a new form of “mind,” which could work against humans and become the new apex species.

The blog post attracted discussions on various fronts and sparked different sentiments on X (formerly Twitter). Some voiced their agreement with the Ethereum founder, while others shared their criticisms of the post.

An X account called Emergent Perspective, which focuses on events in the internet age, replied that they agree with Buterin’s thoughts on the blog post. According to the X user, people who argue that positive intentions can guarantee that AI “cannot harm” scare them. “That has been true of absolutely nothing in human history, and this will not be the first exception,” they added.

I'm with @VitalikButerin on this one.

The only people whose opinions on #AI scare me are the people who argue that "Positive Intentions = guarantee that AI can do no harm."

That has been true of absolutely nothing in human history, and this will not be the first exception. https://t.co/BVGwPjIbMg

Another X user expressed other worries about AI. A community member who goes as “Wei Dai” on X said that one of their concerns is that AI may inherently disfavor defense, decentralization, and democracy. According to the user, AI could accelerate the “wrong intellectual fields,” and humans pushing against it may not be