Anti human, corrosive, powerful, uncanny... but not evil?
I am fully encountering this, believe me. My conclusion is that it's evil.
Powerful and uncanny are morally neutral traits.
At root an LLM is a different kind of mind that thinks different kinds of thoughts. (I’m making no claims about consciousness here.)
It’s a novel object for us humans, and we’ll need decades to come to grips with it. In the meantime I think a bit of humility is due.
Anti human, corrosive, powerful, uncanny... but not evil?
I am fully encountering this, believe me. My conclusion is that it's evil.