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Re:Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain by happyslobro on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:09AM (#12359097)
Agreed, human equivalent AI is probably several hundreds of years off, at best. but we don't need anything that sophisticated to trigger an "overlords" scenario.

I'm picturing something like a very good legal AI, being abused by a foreign state's hackers to ensure the incarceration of political opponents, in preparation for a coup. We're not far off from that being a plausible scenario now, but if we all had the benefit of a personal legal AI, or access to a collective legal AI, then it would be a lot harder for anyone to use the legal system against an individual opponent, as a simple weapon.

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Re:Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain by ythl on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:48AM (#12359407)
That's a really good point. In a world where we use machine learning to decide how to diagnose illness, pass judgment, arrest people, and more, it could be manipulated by bad actors into enslaving us one way or another (no conscious AI needed).
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