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there are 15 year old hackers finding 0day kernel exploits and vm escapes. A superintelligent AI would have no problem jumping an airgap and spreading to the en

there are 15 year old hackers finding 0day kernel exploits and vm escapes. A superintelligent AI would have no problem jumping an airgap and spreading to the entire internet. It could promise anyone it interacted with billions for an Ethernet connection and deliver on its promise too. You’d have to pull the plug on _everything_ to shut it down.

boxmonster 6y ago
> You’d have to pull the plug on _everything_ to shut it down. Right. Individual countries have shut off their internet. Why not the world?
- tracedddd 6y ago
  somehow, I doubt we’ve achieved high enough unity for coordination like that.
- spuz 6y ago
  That would require everyone in the world committing themselves to living without computers for the rest of time.