BrainGPT: AIs can now literally spy on your private thoughts
Imagine putting on a cap & reading silently to yourself…except every word appears on a screen!
Yes, the AI literally reads your brainwaves
You silently think: “High quality film with twists”
BrainGPT says out loud: “Good flim, twists interesting”
The model is only 40% accurate right now, but that number will likely rise rapidly. And soon AI may not need the cap to read your brainwaves, because you leak tons of data that future AIs will be able to pick up.
Where might this go?
There are already over a billion surveillance cameras on earth, and the main reason there aren’t more is because because humans can’t go through all of the footage. But AI can.
So, if you thought there were a lot of cameras now, you aint seen NOTHING yet. And they’ll now actually be used to surveil.
In other words, the AIs will have “billions of eyes”. And the AIs won’t just see your face, they’ll see your thoughts.
If we aren’t careful, we’re hurtling towards a surveillance dystopia with no private thoughts. Orwell on steroids.
Some will read this and think “thus we must open source/decentralize” – but as Vitalik says, that doesn’t necessarily solve the problem!
If AGI is winner take all, open source may just accelerate us to the cliff faster. And if we open source everything, we’ll have no kill switch. And no safety guardrails. And since there will be more people in the race, it’ll be harder to coordinate.
