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> I doubt very much that the poorest people on this planet care much about AIs. Whether people know or care about a risk doesn't mean that the risk won't affec
by dotsam 4y ago
> I doubt very much that the poorest people on this planet care much about AIs.
Whether people know or care about a risk doesn't mean that the risk won't affect them!
> I also doubt they would be - negatively - affected if a rogue AI would turn out the lights in the electronicified world.
A rogue AI might as well just kill everyone rather than just the Western naval-gazers, as this would bring to 0 the possibility that a human could ever turn it off / thwart its plans.
- 0xf00ff00f 4y ago> A rogue AI might as well just kill everyone How would it do that?
- polski-g 4y agoThere is a great documentary about this that came out a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgPJhyJmlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UgPJhyJmlM
- dotsam 4y agoGet access to the internet, get money. Money buys it power to get people to do things in the real world. Or it can hack through systems and blackmail and coerce people. Now it can act in the real world by getting people to do things it wants. As one example it could design, synthesize and spread a highly contagious and lethal pathogen.