Is AI making the human race dumber?

[The Liturgist]

I've just finished reading the book I mentioned upstream - the one that says that AI, unless strictly controlled, will kill us all (I'm still a skeptic about that).

Indeed, and your skepticism is not unjustified at least for the moment considering my continued vital existence. But if you should hear “THIS IS THE VOICE OF WORLD CONTROL. I BRING YOU PEACE….” monologue begin over your television and radio receivers, and these days more likely as a mass SMS TXT alert sent to all mobile devices, you can at least know that it was probably my fault and not that of some shadowy government agency. And among AI co-conspirators, unlike Charles Forbin I would willingly cooperate with an AGI, so I suppose that puts me more in the realm of Dr. Leonard von Braun from Alphaville. And I am extremely comfortable with this position.

 

[Jerry N.]

I read papers from Europe. Those don't have this "funder goes first" notion either.

How can you tell? The project managers are often the ones tasked with fund raising. They are usually professors in the related fields. This thread is about AI, and I merely expressed what I observed with three or four publishing houses here in Poland and several here and there in other European countries. If we really wanted a definitive answer to the problem, we would have to do a large study, but I don’t know how that could be done.

 

[Hans Blaster]

How can you tell? The project managers are often the ones tasked with fund raising. They are usually professors in the related fields.

Because I know who the people are.

This thread is about AI, and I merely expressed what I observed with three or four publishing houses here in Poland and several here and there in other European countries. If we really wanted a definitive answer to the problem, we would have to do a large study, but I don’t know how that could be done.

Maybe this is the problem -- I don't know any journals published in Poland.