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Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by HPMOR on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:04PM (#37517336)
Yeah, Humans are very adept at killing other groups of humans
Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by itiro on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:28PM (#37517537)
To date no robots have, on their own will, only ever due to human ineptitude or intentional malfeasance, killed a human.

Life itself is the leading cause of death.

Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by 6kVShitPost on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:50PM (#37518124)
Scary, if true.
Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by coldtea on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:07AM (#37519106)
>Life itself is the leading cause of death.

It only takes a volcano, earthquake, tsunami, viruses (which are not living organisms) and other such events, for life not to be a leading cause of death in a region for a good while.

And let's not mention meteors...

Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by itiro on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:01AM (#37521179)
Life -> volcano -> death

? -> volcano -> ?

No life preceding death, so no death.

Volcano and meteors are variables, while life preceding death is a constant.

Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by phs318u on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:57PM (#37517745)
AI: scary

Humans: scarier

Humans + AI: scariest

Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by badrabbit on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:07AM (#37518270)
This right here.

US IC already using pattern of life analysis for target selection, wouldn't surprise me if they decided to use ML with "95% accuracy" to do that.

Best outcome: really good slaughterbots become cheap and every country gets them. Then the battlefield is mostly slaughterbots slaughtering each other. But still, when one side wins...

I mean, you gotta understand, this whole "oh no, civilians died" thing is fairly new. Japan, Germany and Russia in WW2 wouldn't have minded slaughter bots that use visual and hear signature based human identification to enable slaughterbots that simply kill anything that lives until their battery runs out.

Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by bluefirebrand on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:39AM (#37518495)
I hear solar is cheaper and more effective than ever, these days.

In case you want your slaughterbots to last longer, I mean.

Re:If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of... by coldtea on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:04AM (#37519088)
Perhaps, but AI is a huge facilitator of whatever inhuman thing humans want to do, especially tyrannical control, autonomous killing machines, etc.

So this is like saying "guns don't kill people, people kill people" (with AI in place of guns).