The real risk of AI is not that it will declare war on us

Here is my thesis: the most likely risk of AI will not be a system declaring war on us; it will be humans organizing the economy and the state around systems that no one can adequately audit, and then calling the consequences inevitable. That is already starting to happen. A company uses a model to screen résumés, and no one knows why it rejects certain candidates. An insurer automates decisions using historical data that carry inequalities forward. A city government buys a surveillance system that promises efficiency and ends up expanding its ability to track its citizens. A student learns to produce flawless texts before learning to distinguish a true statement from a convincing sentence. None of these cases requires artificial consciousness, a machine rebellion, or robots with red eyes. They require opacity, haste, and an institution willing to delegate decisions without taking responsibility.

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