I don’t know when businesses stopped backing up their production databases on physical media, but maybe we should go back to that. I can remember multiple previous jobs where the IT manager was responsible for daily or weekly backups to external drives that were stored off-site in fireproof safes.
I get how cloud storage can meet that requirement now, but surely people recognize that cloud backups are worthless if every dumbass in your company can accidentally delete them.
If your artificial coding agent has a level of access that allows it to delete the cloud backup, maybe the person who gave it that access is the dumbass.
AI has the same relationship to truth and trust that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has: truth is absolutely not part of the equation whatsoever, except in as much as it may be necessary to say some true things in order to establish trust.
Giving such an entity executive power is to ignore a vast and ever growing body of information that you ought not to trust, yet here you are, hanging over the keys to the plausible-sounding nonsense monger.
What about Nigel Farage? Well of course, he’s an absolute liar, a man who chose the dark side decades ago, who knows he’s in the wrong but strangely thinks it’s somehow bad to try to do good.
Boris isn’t a liar or evil in the conventional sense, it’s just that he absolutely wouldn’t dream of letting whether something is true or good be part of decision-making any more than he would lock himself in a cage in public for the week, consult with ants about his route to work or hop on one leg all the time.
At this point, we should not be surprised.
I don’t know when businesses stopped backing up their production databases on physical media, but maybe we should go back to that. I can remember multiple previous jobs where the IT manager was responsible for daily or weekly backups to external drives that were stored off-site in fireproof safes.
I get how cloud storage can meet that requirement now, but surely people recognize that cloud backups are worthless if every dumbass in your company can accidentally delete them.
If your artificial coding agent has a level of access that allows it to delete the cloud backup, maybe the person who gave it that access is the dumbass.
AI has the same relationship to truth and trust that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has: truth is absolutely not part of the equation whatsoever, except in as much as it may be necessary to say some true things in order to establish trust.
Giving such an entity executive power is to ignore a vast and ever growing body of information that you ought not to trust, yet here you are, hanging over the keys to the plausible-sounding nonsense monger.
What about Nigel Farage? Well of course, he’s an absolute liar, a man who chose the dark side decades ago, who knows he’s in the wrong but strangely thinks it’s somehow bad to try to do good.
Boris isn’t a liar or evil in the conventional sense, it’s just that he absolutely wouldn’t dream of letting whether something is true or good be part of decision-making any more than he would lock himself in a cage in public for the week, consult with ants about his route to work or hop on one leg all the time.
So it is with AI.