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I doubt very much that the poorest people on this planet care much about AIs. People living in absolute poverty in Africa, India, China etc. I also doubt they would be - negatively - affected if a rogue AI would turn out the lights in the electronicified world.

Places where AIs aren't used to command peoples lives will probably not even realise that an AI apocalypse had happened. Perhaps a case of western navel-gazing?



> I doubt very much that the poorest people on this planet care much about AIs.

Whether people know or care about a risk doesn't mean that the risk won't affect them!

> I also doubt they would be - negatively - affected if a rogue AI would turn out the lights in the electronicified world.

A rogue AI might as well just kill everyone rather than just the Western naval-gazers, as this would bring to 0 the possibility that a human could ever turn it off / thwart its plans.


> A rogue AI might as well just kill everyone

How would it do that?


There is a great documentary about this that came out a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgPJhyJmlM


Get access to the internet, get money. Money buys it power to get people to do things in the real world. Or it can hack through systems and blackmail and coerce people. Now it can act in the real world by getting people to do things it wants.

As one example it could design, synthesize and spread a highly contagious and lethal pathogen.


By that logic, uncontacted tribes shouldn't be negatively affected by the modern world, and the Sentinelese don't need to concern themselves with sea level rise even if their island is completely swallowed.


Not all uncontacted tribes live on the coast. But yes, there are very few tribes who haven't been influenced by the "modern" world.

I always wonder why these tribes haven't yet invented the iPhone? Obviously since they don't seem to need it.


In order to make an iPhone there was the basis of cell phones, and telephony and radio in general. And the mining of materials that such tribes may not be in proximity to or be able to mine at such intensities given their low populations and tech levels.

For some reason you seem to expect a civilization with the technological sophistication of globalized society with 10,000+ years and billions of people and countless global resources fueling them to suddenly emerge in the small geographies and populations of uncontacted tribes? If you were trying to be witty, you came up short.

Edit: or were you trying to play off "negatively affected by the modern world" as, "well they don't have iPhones so they don't have the Social Dilemma, everything's peachy" instead of the blatantly obvious "we destroyed their world and they had no clue" angle...




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