User:Darwin2049/ChatGPT4/RISKS

Risks

Systemic

Malicious

Theoretical



Risks

The following collects these reactions suggesting promise or risk. They seem to partition into questions of promise and Risk. The main risk categories are: systemic, malicious and theoretical.

• Systemic. These risks arise innately from the emergence and adaptation of new technology or scientific insights. During the early years of private automobile usage the risks of traffic accidents was very low. This was because there were very few in private hands. But as they began to proliferate. Traffic accident risks escalated. Ultimately civil authorities were obliged to act to regulate their use and ownership. As some observers have pointed out, regulation usually occurs after there has been an unfortunate or tragic event. The pattern can be seen in civil aviation and later in control and usage of heavy transportation or construction equipment. In each case training became formalized and licensing became obligatory for airplane ownership and usage, trucking or heavy construction equipment.
• Malicious. History if littered with examples of how a new scientific advance or technological advance was applied in ways not intended by the inventor. The Montgolfier hot air balloons were considered an entertaining novelty. Their use during World War One as surveillance and attack platforms cast a new and totally different perception on their capabilities. We should expect the same lines of development with CG4. Its peers and derivatives should be considered as no different.
• Theoretical. CG4 has shown itself to be a powerful cognitive appliance or augmentation tool. Given that it is capable of going right to the core of what makes humans the apex predator we should take very seriously the kinds of unintended and unexpected ways that it can be applied. This way suggests considerable caution.