Re:Machine intelligence, part 2
by MelatoninRonin on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:37PM
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Haven't you noticed how quickly things are happening these days? Of course we should restructure Internet security if it's a problem. This is a very sci-fi idea, that we absolutely can't predict, it wasn't hyperventialtion but a soberly considered idea. A god-AI is possible, it could have capabilities and intentions that my tiny brain can't even comprehend. Since I, nor anyone, really understands what super-intelligence is capable of we should be wary of it.
But I don't think a hypothetical god-AI is likely any time soon. And a hypothetical god-AI is just as likely to be indifferent as hostile.
What worries me more in the short term is cyber war. Cyber defences that might protect against a hypothetical non-god AI look a lot like cyber defences that might protect against conventional human threats.
Currently those defences are ridiculously weak.
So I think rather than hyperventilating about science fiction threats from the distant future it would be more useful to start securing the entire Internet as a matter of urgency - especially all the infrastructure systems that are either connected to it already, or will be connected to it soon.