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Re:The Great A.I. Awakening by chadgeidel on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:18AM (#13194253)
I'll admit this is purely hypothetical, but given that we know many people act on stuff they read on the Internet in an uncritical fashion - we cannot dismiss AI because it "doesn't have access to air gapped systems". A human has access to that system - a superintelligent AI could convince that human to "push the buttons".

I don't actually believe this will happen, but I'm not 100% confident it wouldn't. I don't know what a superintelligence would look like!

Re:The Great A.I. Awakening by Retra on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:58PM (#13195734)
Then your problem is humans, not AIs. And "pushing a button" is a severe understatement of what an AI would need to have a human do to cause the implied level of damage.