Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says >
That's awful. Yudkowsky's fears seem overblown to me, but there are hazards to this new technology. This suicide demonstrates there are real dangers. I think companies are rushing into it without sufficient testing. It reminds me of when Thomas Edison and others enthusiastically began using the newly discovered x-ray. They killed some patients. Edison caused great harm to his assistant. He was frightened, and stopped all his research into x-rays. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/clarence-dally-the-man-who-gave-thomas-edison-x-ray-vision-123713565
