This is what I found worrysome actually, most people are just worrying about fiction stuff, and not actually taking a look at the actual technology we are currently, actually running right now. The "takeover" fantasies looks like something fully extracted from the most basic psychology / sociollogy of the standard human being, always looking for the greater self-agency possible, in order to potencially maximize the chances of survival.
But the AI tech we already have doesn't have to work like that.
Like what happened to nuclear weapons, they were created with the standard idea of just throwing the bigger bomb possible to the enemy. Yet, we end understanding that nukes are most effective because we cannot use them, ever.
The current AI tech surely, can be deployed at "Skynet" mode if there's some rogue people out there, looking for a hostile system to exist and do harm. There's no - antropological - reason for ("Skynet threatened by fearing humans") , needed at all, the thing can just be trained to do bad things. Just attach to it a couple of Stuxnet things, give it some self-agency (no moral limits mostly), resources and Internet access, then sit back to watch the chaos.
But there's more.. the current AI technology could just go wrong in so many ways that are more or less absent from many online comments.
I recommend to take a look at the video / text from it from Charles Stross, talking about "organizational AI" we already have in place and working since even before we knew we would run computers one day.
But the AI tech we already have doesn't have to work like that.
Like what happened to nuclear weapons, they were created with the standard idea of just throwing the bigger bomb possible to the enemy. Yet, we end understanding that nukes are most effective because we cannot use them, ever.
The current AI tech surely, can be deployed at "Skynet" mode if there's some rogue people out there, looking for a hostile system to exist and do harm. There's no - antropological - reason for ("Skynet threatened by fearing humans") , needed at all, the thing can just be trained to do bad things. Just attach to it a couple of Stuxnet things, give it some self-agency (no moral limits mostly), resources and Internet access, then sit back to watch the chaos.
But there's more.. the current AI technology could just go wrong in so many ways that are more or less absent from many online comments.
I recommend to take a look at the video / text from it from Charles Stross, talking about "organizational AI" we already have in place and working since even before we knew we would run computers one day.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...