Sure, today at least. But there is a future where the human has given AI control of things, with good intention, and the AI has become the threat.
AI is a tool today, tomorrow AI is calling shots in many domains. It's worth planning for tomorrow.
AI is a tool today, tomorrow AI is calling shots in many domains. It's worth planning for tomorrow.
The more AI/ML is woven into our infrastructure and economy, the less it will be possible to find an "off switch", anymore than we can (realistically) find an off switch for Walmart, Amazon, etc.
No, the corporation has an agency that is a tool of particular humans who are using it. Those humans could be shareholders, employees, or board members; but in any case they will have some claim to be acting for the corporation. But it's still human actions. Corporations can't do anything unless humans acting for them do it.
All are human actions. "Against corporate policy." Go ahead, exercise your free will. As a shareholder, an employee, hell as CEO. You will find out how much control a human has.
Note that it may not be immediately apparent we got it wrong. Think of a turkey on a stereotypical small American farm. It will itself living a happy and safe life under protection of its loving Human, until one day, for some reason that's completely incomprehensible to the turkey, the loving Human comes and chops its head off.
As in, for example, self-driving cars being given more autonomy than their reliability justifies? The answer to that is simple: don't do that. (I'm also not sure all such things are being done "with good intention".)
This is also the answer to over-eating, and to the dangers of sticking your hands in heavy machinery while it's running.
And yet there's an obesity problem in many nations, and health-and-safety rules are written in blood.
When you say up-thread is, in itself, correct:
> I wish more people grasped this extremely important point. AI is a tool. There will be humans who misuse any tool. That doesn't mean we blame the tool. The problem to be solved here is not how to control AI, but how to minimize the damage that bad acting humans can do.
Trouble is, we don't know how to do minimise the damage that bad acting humans can do with a tool that can do the thinking for them. Or even if we can. And that's assuming nobody is dumb enough to put the tool into a loop, give it some money, and leave it unsupervised.
And then there's the cases of hubris where people only imagine they understand the powerful thing, but they don't, like Chernobyl exploding and basically every time someone is hacked or defrauded.