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Comment author: dxu 11 March 2016 05:37:26PM 1 point [-]

IMHO, AI safety is a thing now because AI is a thing now and when people see AI breakthroughs they tend to think of the Terminator.

Under that hypothesis, shouldn't AI safety have become a "thing" (by which I assume you mean "gain mainstream recognition") back when Deep Blue beat Kasparov?

Comment author: V_V 12 March 2016 03:35:03PM 1 point [-]

If you look up mainstream news article written back then, you'll notice that people were indeed concerned. Also, maybe it's a coincidence, but The Matrix movie, which has AI uprising as it's main premise, came out two years later.

The difference is that in 1997 there weren't AI-risk organizations ready to capitalize on these concerns.

Comment author: dxu 12 March 2016 06:57:21PM 0 points [-]

Which organizations are you referring to, and what sort of capitalization?