4 thoughts on “Nightmare: An AI Takeover Scenario”
Food for thought indeed, but we have been strongly warned in the past by eminent people, and yet the leaders of technological companies choose to carry on regardless, comparable with Svante Arrhenius and a host of others warning us about the effects of building up CO2 gas, which is pretty much ignored by the very same stubborn technocrats/oligarchs.
Certainly millions of people have warned about both, including most people here, but my good friend Svan wasn’t one of em. He thought it would be good for Sweden if not everyone.
Sorry, but I’m not seeing any menace from AI that hasn’t already been manifested by limbic system-manipulating online propaganda (via social media), the innate mindless sociopathy of large, profit-oriented corporations, the “Epstein class” of the power elite, or the psychopathic morons now getting us closer to WW3 (and/or a second Great Depression) than I’ve seen in the past 50+ years.
As for being surprised that machines designed to be smarter than us will outsmart us, there are about six decades worth of SF writing that has already explored that, from scary villainous kill-all-humans to laid-back super-intellects that sees humans as irrational but mostly harmless.
Food for thought indeed, but we have been strongly warned in the past by eminent people, and yet the leaders of technological companies choose to carry on regardless, comparable with Svante Arrhenius and a host of others warning us about the effects of building up CO2 gas, which is pretty much ignored by the very same stubborn technocrats/oligarchs.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540
“We all know that there is no way back, that we have to fight our way through.”
https://theconversation.com/why-the-doomsday-clock-has-outlived-its-usefulness-275409
Certainly millions of people have warned about both, including most people here, but my good friend Svan wasn’t one of em. He thought it would be good for Sweden if not everyone.
Sorry, but I’m not seeing any menace from AI that hasn’t already been manifested by limbic system-manipulating online propaganda (via social media), the innate mindless sociopathy of large, profit-oriented corporations, the “Epstein class” of the power elite, or the psychopathic morons now getting us closer to WW3 (and/or a second Great Depression) than I’ve seen in the past 50+ years.
As for being surprised that machines designed to be smarter than us will outsmart us, there are about six decades worth of SF writing that has already explored that, from scary villainous kill-all-humans to laid-back super-intellects that sees humans as irrational but mostly harmless.