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This is the problem. WMDs take a lot of infrastructure and can be tested/inspected. AIs can be built/modified by anyone in their basement. The genie can't be
by DougN7 9y ago
This is the problem. WMDs take a lot of infrastructure and can be tested/inspected.
AIs can be built/modified by anyone in their basement. The genie can't be put back into the bottle. It's like trying to outlaw computer viruses and hoping that will work.
I don't have a solution :(
- kakarot 9y agoPerhaps this is the Great Filter. Nuclear war, societal collapse, supervirus... all these can come from rogue / misused AI
- AJ007 9y agoAI needs compute cycles. These are quite centralized outside of botnets. I’ve pointed this out before, but the primary commercial use cases of AI right now are malicious: mass population surveillance and behavior manipulation (ads; political and otherwise.) My biggest concern are the ML researchers who dismiss malicious use as being a distant concern while they work on projects that are malicious right now.
- kakarot 9y agoHomomorphic encryption + cloud services + VPN chaining. If there's one thing that won't be in shortage for the foreseeable future, it's compute cycles. And I'm with you, the socioeconomic aspects of AI are far more important to curtail, but it doens't mean we should be ignoring the very real threat of people attacking infrastructure, sewage and power plants. And we shouldn't be waiting until after it's a problem, when it already can be seen as a certainty that it will happen eventually.