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Do you think we will ever shut down AI?

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People often say that "the genie is already out of the bottle" and can't be put back in.

But the news that Anthropic made its latest model unavailable across Europe shows how control over technology, or the lack of ownership of it, can completely reshape the playing field.

At the same time, surveys suggest that only 16% of Americans believe AI will bring positive change.

I am trying to outline that at some point we can perceive AI as invasive and we will decide to shut it down.

  • Do you think there could come a point where humanity tries to shut AI down?

  • In what hypothetical scenario do you think that would be most likely to happen?

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Ashraf Mahmoud
AI is a tool, like nuclear power. It's not good or bad. How would humanity shut it down? The knowledge to make AI exists. It can always be remade for good or bad.
Konrad S.

Well, as "AI" consists of individual instances of models of varying capabilities, I think there will never be a scenario where it would be necessary / make sense to shut down "all AI". But certain powerful AI systems will surely need to be shut down if they become harmful in one way or the other.

Raj Nagulapalle

probably not a full shutdown, but meaningful constraints yes. the Anthropic/Europe example is interesting because it wasn't about ethics, it was about data sovereignty. i think that's actually the more likely path: not "AI is bad so we stop it" but "you don't own your infrastructure so you lose access." the 16% stat is real but public sentiment rarely translates to coordinated shutdown, it translates to regulation. the scarier scenario isn't shutdown, it's fragmentation where different regions run incompatible versions and nobody's actually in control of any of them.

Michael Gresham
glm newest version is all ready better than fable. so no.
Pranay
I think not , right now we have no motivation to shut down after a point of time we will not be able to even if we try ! I don’t mean it any dramatic way where AI is taking control of everything , I mean we will never be able to develop consensus among all countries to actually do it !
Michal Giernatowski
I don’t think we’re going to shut AI down. It feels more like smartphones or the internet now - once it becomes useful in daily life, we don’t really go back. We’ll just learn to use it differently as it matures: where it can act on its own, where approval is needed and where the boundaries should stay stricter.
Danny

I agree with other commenters. It is an instrument and hence not good or bad per se. And it has too much instances and ramifications to be"shut down".

Pamela Arienti

I think that, as always, there will be divisions: some people will completely refuse to use AI for anything, so in that way, AI will "shut down" for them. At the same time, other companies and people will keep using it, probably differently from what we're doing right now, as AI becomes more and more regulated.

I don't know if I'll ever stop using AI at all, but I'm certainly limiting its use a lot compared to when I first tried ChatGPT and Gemini. I feel like some people are starting to appreciate human-made things again!

Mona Mehta

I think governments will probably think of certain restrictions but AI as a core technology will remain. Because if a huge portion of the population remains unemployed, it hurts the overall economy as well. I don't claim to be highly educated or informed in this regard, but yes that's what comes from the top of mind when answering this question