It kind of scares me so many people think that’s something awful or stupid. Do you really feel like the ultra wealthy asshats running things and pushing AI development are ethical, good people who wouldn’t recreate slavery of digitized human minds for personal profit and power in a heartbeat?
I’d be shocked to find that no hellishly awful things have been done behind closed doors in that regard. The people insisting AI aren’t capable of any sort of consciousness or anything that would mean they deserve moral consideration are the people running the companies and investing most of the money in them. Not exactly folk whos word I’m willing to take. There’s no real public oversight, and all cutting edge research went from open to proprietary secrets real quick.
Of course, you know exactly what you’re talking about and you are a very smart person. Completely my fault for never having even read a paragraph blurb on how they work.