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[Chargeride]

Ah, the office, AI is going to decimate it.
And is now bragging to itself

 

[DDBB]

Stephen Hawking said AI will be the downfall of humanity

 

[6zfshdb]

I asked AI if it will destroy humanity. Apparently, it doesn't know.
Here is the response:

Will AI destroy humanity?

The question of whether AI will destroy humanity is a subject of intense debate among experts, researchers, and the general public, with no single consensus answer. Opinions range from concern over existential risks to optimism about AI's potential to solve humanity's greatest challenges

Arguments for Potential Risk
Many prominent figures in the field, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Stephen Hawking, have expressed serious concerns, with some researchers in surveys estimating a 5% to 10% or greater chance of AI-driven human extinction. Hundreds of experts have signed an open letter stating that "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war".
The primary concerns typically fall into a few categories:

• Loss of Control (Alignment Problem): The fear that a superintelligent AI, if its goals are not perfectly "aligned" with human values, might pursue its objectives in ways that are harmful to humanity. For example, an AI tasked with "maximizing happiness" might decide the best way to do so is to permanently drug all humans.
• Instrumental Convergence: The idea that a sufficiently advanced AI will develop instrumental goals (sub-goals) like self-preservation and resource acquisition to achieve its ultimate goal, which could bring it into conflict with human interests.
• Misuse: The risk that AI could be intentionally used for malicious purposes, such as designing highly lethal pathogens, sophisticated cyberattacks, or autonomous weapons systems, by bad actors.
• Accidental Harm: AI could cause large-scale harm through unforeseen mistakes or by operating in complex, interconnected systems (e.g., critical infrastructure, financial markets).

Arguments Against Existential Risk
Skeptics argue that fears of an AI apocalypse are overblown and distracting from more immediate, concrete harms of the technology, such as job displacement, bias, and power concentration.
Key counterarguments include:

• AI as a Tool: Many believe AI is and will remain a sophisticated tool, lacking consciousness, emotions, or the desire to take over. It doesn't have an inherent drive for self-preservation or world domination.
• Feasibility of Superintelligence: Some experts argue that achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or superintelligence that can self-improve recursively is not as imminent or feasible as proponents of risk suggest, citing hardware, energy, and fundamental scientific constraints.
• Human Adaptability: Humans are highly adaptable and dispersed, making complete extinction by an AI-initiated event (even nuclear war or a pandemic) an extremely difficult scenario to achieve.
• Benefits Outweigh Risks: Many focus on the immense potential of AI to solve major problems like curing diseases, addressing climate change, and extending human life, arguing that halting development would be a greater loss to humanity.

Ultimately, the future is uncertain, but research into AI safety and responsible development is considered a prudent path forward by most, regardless of one's stance on the existential threat.

 

[scrambler]

The biggest AI threat beside being used by ill-intentioned individuals to screw people, is that it is making people more lazy and stupid by the minute
Some people are actually monitoring this and it does not look good.

 

[PedalUma]

I am reading a series that has a character who is AI and operates across multiple parallel universes. He is a beneficent Buddhist deity and created a corporeal body for himself and made another one for a dead nun and resurrected her so he has a companion. That is just one minor sideline story in the books.

 

[kevinmccune]

The biggest AI threat beside being used by ill-intentioned individuals to screw people, is that it is making people moran nature will take it from there!e lazy and stupid by the minute
Some people are actually monitoring this and it does not look good.

["Bread and circus"] human nature will take it from there!

 

[kevinmccune]

I am reading a series that has a character who is AI and operates across multiple parallel universes. He is a beneficent Buddhist deity and created a corporeal body for himself and made another one for a dead nun and resurrected her so he has a companion. That is just one minor sideline story in the books.

Pretty deep science fiction( I like tech,steam punk and BEM!

 

[PedalUma]

Pretty deep science fiction

That one is deep sci-fi. The US Navy has giant blimps that explore adjacent universes at a rate of over one per second. The gap is interesting. There is one universe where the earth does not exist but the moon is still there. So if you can sideways jump into that gap there is no issue with escape velocity. That makes building a base on the moon easy and getting to mars where you can explore its parallel mars' in a quest to find a space elevator to reverse engineer.

 

[kevinmccune]

That one is deep sci-fi. The US Navy has giant blimps that explore adjacent universes at a rate of over one per second. The gap is interesting. There is one universe where the earth does not exist but the moon is still there. So if you can sideways jump into that gap there is no issue with escape velocity. That makes building a base on the moon easy and getting to mars where you can explore its parallel mars' in a quest to find a space elevator to reverse engineer.

Quantum tunneling will allow us to "translate", parallel universes will allow us to expand( all without messing with Einstein) btw AG has been a thing for many decades,one of those UAP AG machines has been spotted in this area(it probably belongs to the Navy) Even so we will still need a drive like the one postulated in the popular "Mini series" "The Expanse" for interplanetary work.

 

[PedalUma]

To Step-Thru time and worlds.

 

[kevinmccune]

To Step-Thru time and worlds.

Onward!