Re:A question about the AI doomsday that's been bothering me
by BjoernKW on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:32PM
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In a nutshell: Emergence. Like an anthill, the Internet very much is a coordinated system.
The thing is, the constituents of such a system wouldn't necessarily recognise the higher-order system they're part of. An ant doesn't know it's part of an anthill.
Such a higher-order system wouldn't necessarily follow the same or even remotely similar evolutionary steps or patterns as the systems and structures that preceded it.
Wouldn't it make sense that something on the level of a hydra or flatworm would develop prior to a rat-like entity, prior to a human level consciousness?
And it doesn't take consciousness or intelligence to manipulate intelligence; it just takes evolution and necessity, as is seen with plants, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.