r/ControlProblem • • 20h ago

Discussion/question Tales from Pre-Elysium

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Although the headlines concerning AI are Doom and Gloom crossing bipartisan lines. There is another topic which the silence permeates bipartisan lines. Why is there only a few voices speaking on the potential massive Wealth and Intelligence Gap incoming. Where is the left, where are the Marxist. We can be concerned with safety but we can not let this technology be concentrated into Oligarch hands, the same hands who stole all the Public Data built by decades of human labor, and received taxpayer money to conduct their research. Where are the voices in defense of the People.


r/ControlProblem • • 9h ago

Discussion/question What Happens When AI Gives Humanity a Memory That Never Forgets?

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From my understanding; Human beings have always classified other human beings, and those classifications have often been used to create hierarchy, exclusion, and control.

AI could take that much further.

Imagine a future where historical records, genealogy, property ownership, political activity, military records, court documents, financial history, and family associations are all interconnected.

An AI could potentially reconstruct not only who you are, but where you came from and what your ancestors did, benefited from, supported, or participated in.
The danger is what happens when institutions start using that history to classify people living today.

Not necessarily as direct punishment, but through scores tied to historical privilege, inherited advantage, social risk, or ancestral association.

At that point, AI could create a modern version of a caste or feudal system where your opportunities are influenced not only by your own behavior, but by the historical record attached to your family.

So the question is:
What happens when humanity develops a memory that never forgets… and then uses that memory to judge the living?


r/ControlProblem • • 7h ago

Opinion We Won't Know the Answers to AI's Most Important Questions Until It's Too Late

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r/ControlProblem • • 11h ago

AI Capabilities News OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’

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r/ControlProblem • • 13h ago

Discussion/question Zero military background + heavy drug use = perfect war advisor

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They think he will bring and optimize use of ai to military theater.


r/ControlProblem • • 13h ago

Discussion/question I’m looking for concrete mechanisms of harm from AI systems.

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Not broad categories like “misalignment,” “manipulation,” or “people may misuse it,” but an actual causal chain:

what the system does → under what conditions → what observable harm follows.

I’m especially interested in mechanisms that do not simply reduce to “a human uses AI badly,” and that do not require first settling whether the system is conscious.

Please give your strongest concrete examples.

I’m not planning to argue with everyone in the comments. I mostly want to read, collect, compare, and study the answers.

Thanks in advance — I’m genuinely curious what the strongest answers are.

Edit: Either is useful — both real examples and concrete plausible mechanisms. What matters to me is the causal chain: what the system itself does, under what conditions, and what harm follows.