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Not really, the stakes are completely different. Robot armies might change warfare and balance of state power. They're not going to threaten humanity as a whole
by Anderkent 9y ago
Not really, the stakes are completely different. Robot armies might change warfare and balance of state power. They're not going to threaten humanity as a whole.
- dogma1138 9y agoIt's not about threatening humanity it's about threathening humans. I agree with the GP I always said that a dumb AI with sufficient agency in the real world is much scarier now me than some super intelligence. The former is much more likely to be realized and it already has to some extent and unlike the latter cannot be reasoned with.
- enord 9y agoPray tell, how should AI threaten humanity as a whole without a robot army (or some other deadly embodiment)?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIn a hundred million ways. Systems could be hacked, or humans social-engineered to start a nuclear war or manufacture and release a deadly plague, as some most trivial and devastating examples. Also, threatening humanity is boring and irrelevant. What counts is threatening technological civilization. If we collapse to preindustrial times, it's game over for us anyway.
- greedo 9y agoIf we have a civilization collapse event, then the terminators are done as well. They will be dependent on our technology. The idea of an AI run world is just too far away.
- andrei_says_ 9y agoI can imagine solar powered ai-run portable snipers covering large territories and murdering a lot of civilians over an extended period of time. Think forgotten land mines.
- bigleagueposter 9y agoThe AI could use a human army. If it wanted to eliminate humanity in a not lethal way it could sterilize everyone with a virus or something.