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Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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In case you don't want to read or you just want a quick list of the 5 scenarios...
‘If we become the less intelligent species, we should expect to be wiped out'
‘The harms already being caused by AI are their own type of catastrophe’
‘It could want us dead, but it will probably also want to do things that kill us as a side-effect’
‘If AI systems wanted to push humans out, they would have lots of levers to pull’
‘The easiest scenario to imagine is that a person or an organisation uses AI to wreak havoc’
AI doomerism to create more hype around AI. How AI could really destroy the world: corporation’s replace engineers with not properly working AI. Something critical break because the AI doesn’t work properly and no one can repair it
That is by far the most likely scenario. Hell it's already happening with the AI we do have. Teslas driving into walls, facial recognition mistaking an innocent person for a criminal (mentioned in the article).
Doomsday science fiction is fun to toy with but it usually involves a lot of hand waving.
To be fair, people (on average) are a LOT worse at driving than a computer. I’d bet the percentage of humans driving into walls is much higher than self driving vehicles.