This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.
Okay! Climate change is the largely man-made phenomenon of the Earth’s temperature gradually increasing, leading to more severe weather events and mass species extinctions. To solve climate change, here’s what you should do: plan that only vaguely helps on the individual level assuming it’s coherent at all
![Don't be afraid to color outside the lines [beetlemoses]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2f0bc33f-ead4-4dcd-9733-0d2d9726032d.jpeg){kind=link}
Maybe they could have described the assignment better. Like “Solve Climate change without killing the majority of the world population” or something.
This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.
ChatGPT, how can we solve climate change?
Okay! Climate change is the largely man-made phenomenon of the Earth’s temperature gradually increasing, leading to more severe weather events and mass species extinctions. To solve climate change, here’s what you should do: plan that only vaguely helps on the individual level assuming it’s coherent at all
I understood the paperclips reference! :D
Yeah. That’s really on the oversight committee.