“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” If George Bernard Shaw were to replace the word ‘pig’ with ‘troll’, he would have captured perfectly the psychology of online trolls. The internet can resemble a pigsty at the worst of times, especially thanks to trolls who use the online space to mud-splatter their hate and abuse for their own merriment, to others’ detriment. Victims of trolling are sent to a verbal abattoir whilst these trolls roll around, spreading their vile dirt, as happy as pigs in clover.
If we’re going to label AI an extinction risk, we need to clarify how it could happen
Scientists voicing fears about the potential extermination of a species have given us no tangible scenario for how such an extreme event might occur.
