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AI Leaves Us Nowhere to Run
4 grillitoyellow 9 7/22/2025, 7:04:27 AM
Usually some people are able to move to another place to avoid war, hunger, famine, hurricanes, violence, a bad marriage, unemployment, a toxic environment and things like that. Those who consider themselves intelligent think that they will be able to avoid all those dangers by going somewhere far from hell. I would argue that we design our moral systems just to position ourselves in a place in which we can stay and at that allows us to go somewhere else when things turn bad. But now we have advanced AI, and no matter what you think, maybe there is nowhere left to go. Conditions will mutate beyond escape. Sometimes people destroy their facades, they are like larvae entering a new state. Sometimes by redefining what it means to be human and joining collective humans efforts. Now, the time has come where there is nowhere left to go - so take your best shot and move now. Align - if humans still can.
Or else, alone.
I pledge -- no, I beg everyone in the AI domain to stop improving AI models and integrating AI with internal data. It's OK-ish to just use AI for personal stuffs, but training AI for a specific company? Not a good idea for whoever works there. Combining robotics and AI to replace low-salary workers? Why?
I don't really think we know the consequences of further improvement on AI. AI today is not a big issue -- it won't replace most careers -- worst case it improves productivity and removes the need to hire more workers, but I believe none of us really know how good AI is going to be. We really need a globally political consensus to regulate and use AI.
I don't really have high hope though. I look forward to a dystopian future, maybe even worse than what we saw in the movies.
There are other differences that I can list, e.g. back then, ordinary people could still (relatively easily, comparing to nowadays) start a revolution because there is no significant tech gap between what a state could get and what citizens could get, so anything bad would be corrected in a violent way if it had to be. But with the advancement of technology, I doubt that would ever happen again -- unless we have a WW3 that set back every country by 100 years.
So basically, my argument is, we are facing something that could happen imminently, but we couldn't tell whether it is good for ordinary people or not (I believe many are NOT optimistic), and there is no way to dial back -- shouldn't we stop to think through?
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What’s unsettling is that even the digital spaces we once thought were safe are starting to feel exposed. Communities, workflows, and creative work can now be replicated, imitated, or reshaped faster than we can adapt.
Maybe the real question is not about finding a new place to go, but deciding who we want to become. Together if we can, or alone if we must.
Yes, our ethics about others and us is self-serving, alignment won't be possible. Perhaps the metaphor about fleeing could be exemplified in a concrete geographical zone and social group, but whoever cares about human lives know many such examples. This is not the place to suggests actionable principles, is just a call to consider the nature of the problem.