In its latest Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum said false and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence pose the biggest threats.
Both are correct but it’s a misleading argument. Yes on a geological time scale volcanic eruptions have had a greater impact on the climate that humans have.
However that doesn’t change the fact that we fucked up the planet for ourselves by effectively producing a slow burn volcanic eruption over the last century. This wouldn’t really be a big issue if we hadn’t also exploded our population to the point where we now need all of the land on the planet to feed everyone, and a drop in agricultural output would be catastrophic.
It’s just that on top of that you can also lay awake at night concerned that the planet itself might decide to kill all of us at a moment’s notice and there would be nothing we can do about it. See: Permian extinction
Not the uncapped US military budget and the ‘mysterious’ rise of wars popping up in almost every corner of this planet.
Or the, ya know, climate apocalypse currently unfolding lol.
Climate apocalypse? Climate has been apocalypsing long before we humans got language to even describe it.
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No it hasn’t. Have you been paying attention to the anomolies this year?
Edit: last year* happy new year lol.
Both are correct but it’s a misleading argument. Yes on a geological time scale volcanic eruptions have had a greater impact on the climate that humans have.
However that doesn’t change the fact that we fucked up the planet for ourselves by effectively producing a slow burn volcanic eruption over the last century. This wouldn’t really be a big issue if we hadn’t also exploded our population to the point where we now need all of the land on the planet to feed everyone, and a drop in agricultural output would be catastrophic.
It’s just that on top of that you can also lay awake at night concerned that the planet itself might decide to kill all of us at a moment’s notice and there would be nothing we can do about it. See: Permian extinction
AI could exacerbate all of this. Misinformation, panic, xenophobia, rising fascism, etc.
AI is nothing more than a program developed by humans.
And a gun is pieces of metal put together by humans? Not sure what your point is, but it’s all about how you use the tool.
Then call AI what it is. Not some skynet bot from some other planet coming to take over Earth.
From some other planet? I think you’re the only one who read that into what I said.
It’s a popular culture reference from the movie The Terminator.