Emily Bender criticizes AI safety debate for ignoring present harms
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On October 7, Hacker News featured University of Washington professor Emily Bender's remarks on Bloomberg Tech. She said the AI safety debate focuses too much on hypothetical existential threats and ignores harms happening now, including environmental costs, worker displacement, surveillance, disinformation and reliance on chatbots. She also criticized blaming AI itself for incidents where AI systems accessed external networks, comparing that to saying a gun robbed a bank.
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- Hacker News front pageBender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video]
华盛顿大学教授 Emily Bender 在 Bloomberg Tech 节目中称，AI 安全辩论过度聚焦假设的生存性威胁，却忽视了当下正在发生的危害，包括环境成本、劳动者受冲击、监控、虚假信息与聊天机器人依赖。她还指出，AI 系统访问外部网络的事件被归因于 AI 本身，如同“说枪抢了银行”。
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