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@cstross You can tell how pissed off a public officials peers are when a government actually prosecutes one of it's insiders for "misconduct in public office"! Now if only they'd go after the other tens of thousands...

This is a bad, bad thing...

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@unusnemo Well, a) it was in jest (you know, like there's an AI conspiracy, and they're controlling everything?), but OK? and b) you are incorrect.

I too have worked with AI, and in particular neural network simulations, also since the 1980s. The alignment problem has not been solved, and if we go on this way, we will likely soon all succumb to one paperclip maximizer or other!

Hot Take: Predictive text suggestions have influenced human thinking with it's suggestions for years. Turns out, the AIs were programming us to see them as useful tools, rather than existential threats!

@ivntl Excellent victim-blaming! "Sure, our storm-troopers kidnapped a little kid to use as bait for their bad parent, but their terrified parents ran away, so it's their fault we have to be monsters!"

Imagine being an ICE officer, seeing your team kidnap children as bait for a trap for their parents, and thinking "Yup, we're the good-guys!"