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AI is not a hive mind, and each will have varying levels of research, effort, and validation put into them.

This is like asking, IMO, "how can humans be trusted to pilot planes, when my barista can't ride a bike?"



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AI doesn't think like humans just like commercial airliners don't fly like birds.

I fail to see how AI can really assist with this.

Whatever model the AI is fed is going to contain an enormous number of assumptions many of which we have a very limited ability to scientifically test and validate prior to using them as inputs.

If the inputs are faulty if doesn’t matter how smart the AI is it’s going to produce inaccurate results.


Can any AI be trusted outside of it's realm of data? I mean it is only a product of the data it takes in. Plus it isn't really finger quotes AI. It just a large data library with some neat query language where it tries to assemble the best information not by choice but probability.

Real AI makes choices not on probability but in accordance of self preservation, emotions and experience. It would also have the ability to re-evaluate information and the above.


There arguably is for normal people (insert extremely complicated decision theory here) but for AIs it only follows to the extent they need help from humans, and they can't coerce and trick them instead.

An AI would be trained on human decisions, and unless we're careful it can easily have the same biases as human decision making.

But you can never know, so no sensible person would ever trust such an AI. AI stands for "automated irresponsibility." Didn't you know that?

Maybe AI's are really being created to serve a special class of gullible human who don't understand basic epistemology.


"AI" is not currently autonomous; its algorithms that do exactly what their creators tell them to do. They run on binary computers that only do exactly as they are told.

I have my doubts an AI will reliably generate results that are scientifically verifiable.

AI interpolates across it's parameter space, but typically performs poorly in extrapolation exercises.


humans and AI aren't the same. There's no reason to think it will have to be the same.

Assuming the AI isn't a distributed system, sure

It's not a question if AI can think, it's whether humans will.

I don't think so, plurality of AI's should solve this.

Good point. What would these AI people know about AI? You’re right, what they’re doing will never work

You should make your own, shouldn’t take more than a weekend, right?


To me the problem of AI is not how it works but how reliable it works.

Do we have a way to test AI to prevent corner cases which could lead to catastrophic results?


AI systems are not like people.

The problem with AI is not the AI itself, it is people. Dumb people. Dumb people with credentials and power.

Train an AI which is judged on its ability to train humans. I don't think we're ever going to really trust AI until it can explain itself clearly to humans. And that's pretty close to being able to teach.

AI works the way human intuition does. Try explaining professional intuition to someone; it's not going to be a convincing argument unless they're willing to trust your expert gut feeling.

How do we know it isn't just people doing the analysis if we can't actually use the AI ourselves?
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