i disagree, society could stop inventing and humanity would likely continue to exist. However, that would would require the population to stop being interested in the development of technology which i think wont happen.
The point is, if this engineer doesnt write this code, someone else will. If a person can imagine a tool, someone will eventually want to make it a reality.
i think deepfakes and ai generation are going to change the world in a way that im a bit leery of, it feels safer to just stop here, but that isnt a possibility, even if deepfakes are made illegal, people will still create their own tools and have their own harddrives for storage.
maybe these things should be illegal or something, hard to say. But the tech will move forward either way imo.
We all have responsibilities as technologists to be ethical (to our own standards, at least), and to keep in mind the impact of the things we build. That applies regardless of whether other tech with a negative social impact exists, or for that matter whether it will exist. You can still be a good person, even if no one else is doing so, and you're under no pressure to be a bad person (in this context, anyway).
i disagree, society could stop inventing and humanity would likely continue to exist. However, that would would require the population to stop being interested in the development of technology which i think wont happen.
The point is, if this engineer doesnt write this code, someone else will. If a person can imagine a tool, someone will eventually want to make it a reality.
i think deepfakes and ai generation are going to change the world in a way that im a bit leery of, it feels safer to just stop here, but that isnt a possibility, even if deepfakes are made illegal, people will still create their own tools and have their own harddrives for storage.
maybe these things should be illegal or something, hard to say. But the tech will move forward either way imo.