Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it...
by ben_w on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:10PM
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AI don't need to wake up for a bug to kill y'all.
While putting an AI in charge of weapons is at least three Hollywood plots[0], it has also (GOFAI is still AI) behind at least two real-life near-misses from triggering global thermonuclear war[1].
[0] Terminator (and the copycat called X-Men Days of Future Past); Colossus the Forbin Project; WarGames
[1] Stanislav Petrov incident, 26 September 1983; Thule Site J incident October 5, 1960 (AKA "we forgot to tell it that the moon doesn't have an IFF transponder and that's fine")
While putting an AI in charge of weapons is at least three Hollywood plots[0], it has also (GOFAI is still AI) behind at least two real-life near-misses from triggering global thermonuclear war[1].
[0] Terminator (and the copycat called X-Men Days of Future Past); Colossus the Forbin Project; WarGames
[1] Stanislav Petrov incident, 26 September 1983; Thule Site J incident October 5, 1960 (AKA "we forgot to tell it that the moon doesn't have an IFF transponder and that's fine")