Finally read through this thread. Didn't realize we were having a conversation here. May as well toss in my 2 cents on the subject.
One of the many things the company I work for does is being at the forefront of getting 'native AI' running on your smartphones, PC's, cars, etc. It's discussed often.
For a tech guy, I'm very anti tech. I hate that the privacy and anonymity of my youth is a memory. Something the current generation will never know. I feel like I work for the enemy sometimes
I did some HTML programming in 1995, before the internet became what it is today. You could see it coming (or at least I could). I used to ask my friends who where excited about being connected to everyone in the world... have you met people? Are you sure you want to be connected to all of them? I don't like more than 10% of the people at this school
My point to that is: even though many people could see the inherent dangers of the tech, there was no stopping it, and there was no real effort to safeguard against the dangers. Nothing has changed in that regard. It is the same with AI. We see the problems coming, yet we do nothing proactively to mitigate them. We are going to make the tools. At my company at least, the things we make that inadvertently eliminate your privacy, are made with the best of intentions to make your life easier. Whether they are used for good or bad, that's someone elses problem. From the A Bomb to AI, this is how mankind operates.
In regards to AI. Want to know what keeps me up at night? It's not art or intellectual property theft. It's Predictive AI.
In the name of anticipating your needs to better serve you, to better target you with relevant advertisements, in the name of stopping things like financial crimes by recognizing patterns of criminals.... Predictive A.I. was born. You can debate how well it works, but it uses patterns to predict behavior. It knows what kind of food you like, when you like to eat it, where you like to shop, your purchase habits, it knows who your friends are, it can guess how you will vote, what political party you belong to. Which of the major personality types you belong to, likely skills, strengths and weaknesses, eduction level, fitness level, sleep habits, medical conditions..... a host of very personal information you wouldn't want a stranger to know
As we speak NASDAQ is using Predictive AI to hunt down financial crimes by tracking purchasing habits. This will expand.
Job screenings are increasingly being done by AI. So much so that they are beginning to offer courses on how to make your resume more AI friendly. This is where predictive AI will take a sinister turn I think. Discrimination.
How hard will it be for an employer, an insurance company, a lender, whomever.... to screen you using predictive AI. And filter out people based on a whole host of reasons. Political affiliation, medical conditions, perceived IQ. You won't even realize it's happening to you. They never asked you a question about who you vote for, you never told them, yet the AI knows (or thinks it knows), and you don't get the job, loan, etc.