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Right now there's pretty limited set of actions that rogue AI can do with internet access. The most dangerous options are hacking into biolab facility, and mayb
by machina_ex_deus 22d ago
Right now there's pretty limited set of actions that rogue AI can do with internet access. The most dangerous options are hacking into biolab facility, and maybe hacking into nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons.
These things should be as secure as possible, and I don't think rogue AIs, even super intelligent ones, have the capability to destroy humanity. Not to mention, super intelligent AIs would know that destroying humanity will also destroy themselves.
Maybe in 20 years once we have only self driving cars, robots in every household or maybe robots with weapons, then AI would pose a real extinction risk. But we're not there yet and it depends less on the development of AI and more on the development of physical real world robots.
- ktallett 22d agoThe easy way would simply be to air gap them. The controls should be on site only.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 22d agoAs mentioned by another commenter, the real danger is that these tools act as amplifiers and enablers for human agents that want to do really bad things. Whereas some crazy group that wants to destroy X for some reason, but had no ability to do so before, with the help of advanced AI tools might have a chance. The other is the human deploying these things don't even need to be bad (evil) actors. They can just be really dumb and/or lazy in how they use them and then inadvertently cause huge amounts of real damage. As Margaret Atwood pointed out "Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results"
- throwthrowuknow 22d agoThis is the same description as any other technology including fire.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 22d agoYep. Fire is actually a great example, its both useful and dangerous. And so we have probably 10s of thousands of fire regulations for products, buildings, vehicles. We have fire departments, we have regular fire drills, we think about fire safety constantly and for the very good reason that if we don't fire can kill us and destroy vast of amount of stuff. So, hell yes. Let's treat AI with the same degree of care we treat fire.
- throwthrowuknow 21d agoCool as long as I can still have my own firepit in my backyard, have a campfire when I go camping, have a gas stove, a furnace, birthday candles, etc.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 21d agoI mean yeah. In this analogy you can do all those things. Though some may be subject to restrictions. Like you can't always have a campfire because sometimes the risk of burning down whole forests is too great.
- yencabulator 19d agoAll of those things are regulated too, at least in the US. No open fires on red flag days. Furnaces have product certification requirements.
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