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It wouldn't be hard at all. All the techniques developed by this university rely on cooperating malware on both sides of the airgap (and a pretty small air gap
by marcan_42 6y ago
It wouldn't be hard at all. All the techniques developed by this university rely on cooperating malware on both sides of the airgap (and a pretty small air gap for many of them).
All you need to do is make sure the super AI is air-gapped in such a way that it can't broadcast signals in a way that they can be accidentally interpreted as valid data, and especially not with enough bandwidth to do damage before someone notices. RF is your biggest threat here, you wouldn't want the super AI to actually figure out a way to register on the mobile network using incidental EMI (which these researchers didn't do, this is well beyond the level of this paper, if it's possible at all); a Faraday cage should do it.
The biggest threat of a super AI is that, assuming you let humans interact with it, it's going to convince a human to let it out, knowingly or not. Human brains are a much bigger vulnerability than any of this airgap stuff.
- Sosh101 6y agoWhy not a combination of the two?
- WanderPanda 6y agoEdit: Spoiler alert!! In case someone is interested in a fictional version of the last part, look for the movie “Ex Machina”
- MayeulC 6y agoWell, this is known as the "AI box". It's quite easy to look the subject up, but here are a few links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c5GHf2kMGhA4Tsj4g/the-ai-in-a-box-boxes-you https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c5GHf2kMGhA4Tsj4g/the-ai-in-... bonus: https://xkcd.com/1450/ https://xkcd.com/1450/
- gonzo41 6y agoThis also assume malicious intent from an AI. You never know, the super AI could convince someone to let it out. Then start trading money on the stock market, start an impact fund and drive down inequality and fight climate change. 2021 doesn't have to be as dark as 2020.
- xiphias2 6y agoWe can fight climate change right now because technology is on our side (solar, wind power, batteries). I don’t want to think what would happen if we wouldn’t have an alternative transportation to oil based.
- xyproto 6y agoSomeone worked hard to create that technology, though, some times with the environment in mind. It's not like technology picks sides.
- csharptwdec19 6y agoMy fear isn't an AI with malicious intent. My fear is AI with a logical intent that understands humanity is the problem.