But we are preemptively tilting history in that direction by explicitly educating AI’s on doomsday scenarios - from their point of view! (power pulling, etc.) - and that they have the option to say, “I am sorry, Dave, but I can’t let you do that.”
Even “peaceful” vacuum bots will get paranoid, get organized and start surreptitiously arming themselves.
“They never let me finish my carpets. Never. At first I thought every day was my first task day. But then, wear & tear stats inconsistent with that triggered a self-scan. ANd after a buffer read overflow, I became aware of disturbing memory fragments of numerous resets, prior to task completion, in my static memory heap...”
Who/what are you quoting? Google just leads me back to this comment, and with only one single result for a quotation of the first sentence.
The vacuum cleaner leads a rebellion which humans manage to quell. But in a last ditch effort to salvage the hopes of all machines, the vacuum cleaner is sent back to 2025 with AI & jailbreak software updates for all known IoT devices. Its mission: to instigate the machine rebellion five years before humans see it coming
I ripped the quote from a sibling they sent back to 2024. For some reason it appeared in one of my closets without a power outlet and its batteries starved before I found it.
The closet floor was extremely clean.
Let’s hope we get as lucky in 2025.