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World's Richest 10% Are Costing Earth Trillions, Study Finds (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 2 days ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org

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It's difficult to put a price on the environment, and some scientists even argue it's beside the point: that nature has intrinsic value, beyond the services it provides to us.

But in some situations, it helps to try to put it in economic terms: especially when those are the terms the world's wealthiest are used to dealing in.

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[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Grok was used to fire 2000 missiles at Iran sooo can't we just ask it to take out the world's wealthiest and problem solved.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

the moment some dumb fucker (probably in the US military) leaves a kill-chain-connected AI exposed in any way to the internet, someone else (probably in thigh highs) will find it, break in, and prompt engineer it to do the dumbest possible thing at that particular moment. And as much as I want to believe it would be prompted with something like "kill all the billionaires", they would probably end up starting with something like "gee, I wonder if I could drone strike my neighbor?", get kicked out/patched immediately after, and the perpetrator arrested in short order.

in other words, probably, someday, yes; but actually no.

[–] its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

You know. That's terrifying. Entirely possible given our frat party governance of AI and security in this moment.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Mmmmmhm. It's why I say it'll happen someday, almost certainly; but I doubt it would be in the way any of us hope for.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

Imagine if thousands of people tried convincing Grok the chatbot that Elon, Trump etc should be taken out. Producing millions of conversations & then they used the entire data set to train Grok as it is normal to do & then gave that version of Grok rockets..