A lady here in Florida asked me to reassure her that AI wouldn’t kill all humans. “I’ve seen the movies about Skynet, so I know what could happen,” she said. I reflected that an AI fed on a diet of the New York Times and Greta Thunberg could easily come to the conclusion that humans were destroying the planet via CO2 emission and, therefore, the best course of action would be to kill all humans. She responded, “You’re not making me feel better.”
What is the correct answer? If AI is embedded in networked robots and at least one robot is walking near every group of humans, what stops the robots from killing us in a coordinated attack? Maybe the AI will study the Lebanese Civil War in which 150,000 people were killed by their neighbors due to “religious diversity” and say “I can do a more thorough job than the Lebanese did with their neighbors back in 1990.”
Phil, we can all be thankful that Sam Altman has embedded the high IQ of Greta Thunberg in their AI software. Alhamdulillah that the robots you reference will one day soon eradicate the Terrorist State of Israel and all its inhabitants as a just reward for their Genocides in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and now Iran. Allahu Akbar!
The leading danger is an overwhelmingly large number of bots all reporting an imaginary nuclear missile launch to very high level decision makers. Figure the current state of the internet being 99% bots generating fake launch videos is going to become the state of NORAD before long.
In the words of Kent Brockman: “I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords”
Elon Musk just announced that he plans to make 1-10 billion humanoid robots per year. It that happens, and the robots gang up on us, we are dead.
> I reflected that an AI fed on a diet of the New York Times and Greta Thunberg could easily come to the conclusion that humans were destroying the planet via CO2 emission and, therefore, the best course of action would be to kill all humans
LOL! When are you writing another book on some aspect the American society, Dr. Greenspun? I read that, a favorite satirist, Chris Morris, is working on some AI related satire. BTW, unaskedfor recommendation, checkout “Four Lions”, you might like it.
> AI is embedded in networked robots and at least one robot is walking near every group of humans, what stops the robots from killing us in a coordinated attack?
Indeed, tribal mentality needs to be programmed against.
Saw this on Reddit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250517154120/https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/calkdw/climate_protest_in_cologne_theyre_standing_on_ice/#lightbox