Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a Better Place

Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by coldcode on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:40PM (#15350924)

Assuming AI decided humans were still necessary. Without us it would be a safer place for the planet, but we'd miss out.

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Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by 2close4comfort on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:53PM (#15351079)

After seeing the results of US politics in the last year, the AI would be foolish to keep us around it should be pretty apparent that we cannot be trusted especially en masse.

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Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by EA on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:17PM (#15351308)

You think there was a time in US politics that an AI would choose to keep us around?

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Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:01PM (#15351174)

A silicon based AI might have no use for any carbon based life form. Birds can mess up power lines. Rodents can chew threw cables. I think one of the things AI might do is try to "sterilize" the Earth.

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Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by rgbrenner on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:10PM (#15351260)

interfering with powerlines and fiber optic cables -- the things an ai would depend on for life -- may be seen as the equivalent of a terrorist attack by the AI.

Edit: further... using silicon or other resources that the AI needs to reproduce or grow would put us in direct conflict with the AI.

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Re:Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a... by baq on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @03:17PM (#15351311)

perhaps amusingly and somewhat blasphemously, the Bible guides us here: God created mankind in his own image.

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