<story><title>Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People&apos;s Thoughts in Breakthrough</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3w3g/scientists-use-gpt-ai-to-passively-read-peoples-thoughts-in-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>13years</author><text>All roads of AI are converging on the end of privacy. A free society does not exist in the absence of privacy.&lt;p&gt;When you lose privacy you lose ownership over your own thoughts. You lose agency over the direction of your own life.&lt;p&gt;Humanity suffers by either scenario, either by our own agency in control of power we are not prepared to manage or we will be managed by power that we can not control.&lt;p&gt;Many have their focus looking forward to the unknown concerns of AGI; however, these other issues are already nearly imminent and are far less present in discourse around AI.&lt;p&gt;The impacts on socialization and society in general from AI performing exactly as we have requested it may be one of the greatest threats. I&amp;#x27;ve written quite a bit on that aspect, FYI - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dakara.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;artificial-intelligence-ai-ends-in&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dakara.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;artificial-intelligence-ai-end...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deet</author><text>Loss of agency is a deeply profound concern that is not discussed enough.&lt;p&gt;So much of human life is tied to the reward of the sense of accomplishment, and AI threatens that in a meaningful way. From large things, like seeing a piece of software you built ship and get used, or seeing your child graduate from college after years of hard work raising them, to the small things, like even eating a delicious meal you cooked yourself.&lt;p&gt;When machines are not only offering to solve problems and perform actions for us, but are reading are thoughts and doing everything for us before we even make an attempt, I worry that sense of accomplishment will become ever less frequent.&lt;p&gt;And while we can compensate for machines taking jobs through, eg, universal basic income or the like, how we can solve for machines replacing struggle, perseverance, and accomplishment is still very much TBD.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People&apos;s Thoughts in Breakthrough</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3w3g/scientists-use-gpt-ai-to-passively-read-peoples-thoughts-in-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>13years</author><text>All roads of AI are converging on the end of privacy. A free society does not exist in the absence of privacy.&lt;p&gt;When you lose privacy you lose ownership over your own thoughts. You lose agency over the direction of your own life.&lt;p&gt;Humanity suffers by either scenario, either by our own agency in control of power we are not prepared to manage or we will be managed by power that we can not control.&lt;p&gt;Many have their focus looking forward to the unknown concerns of AGI; however, these other issues are already nearly imminent and are far less present in discourse around AI.&lt;p&gt;The impacts on socialization and society in general from AI performing exactly as we have requested it may be one of the greatest threats. I&amp;#x27;ve written quite a bit on that aspect, FYI - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dakara.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;artificial-intelligence-ai-ends-in&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dakara.substack.com&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;artificial-intelligence-ai-end...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>You have to physically climb into an multimillion dollar, 10 ton, liquid-helium-cooled machine and spend hours training it on your brain. We&amp;#x27;re a long way from the end of private thought, nor is there a roadmap to it.&lt;p&gt;If someone is working on a handheld device that can perform MRI-level scans from across the room, I would be worried about the privacy implications of &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; technology, not AI.</text></comment>