Re:Bunny AI
by danielheath on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:52PM
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Much like my fears about bluetooth connected cars being hacked to crash on the highway, it turns out that - by and large - nobody wants to kill me (or at least, not badly enough to do anything about it).
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Ah yes the nobody wants to do it to me excuse. Until you piss off the wrong person and you suddenly crash into the railing and die in an 'accident'.
In a more Orwellian world. It can be used to assassinate dissidents or individuals who speak out against authoritarian regimes. It's just a tool in a box, but it's one that's simple, easy to use, and leaves no evidence.
Oh, Ada Palmer’s ‘Too Like The Lightning’ has this as an element.
Re:Bunny AI
by codetrotter on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:56PM
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> leaves no evidence
For a “car crash” I agree.
But if my laundry folding robot stabs me to death in my sleep, I hope that at the very least it raises some eyebrows :^)
I always felt like the HL7 interface is a huge vector for this. Change someone's medicine allergies, blood type, etc.
Re:Bunny AI
by tylervigen on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:07PM
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But that’s true with or without the AI. Anyone could decide they want to kill you. Most of the time we rely on “not everyone wanting to kill everyone else” to get by.
Re:Bunny AI
by _Algernon_ on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:17PM
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The thing about black swan events is they never seem likely to happen until they do.
Truly the most evil hacker is the one that leaves you to live out your life until old age and decrepitude catch up with you.