How serious a situation do you see AI with respect to its dangers? On the news here in the UK a guy from the industry says he believes AI will kill us all at sometime in the near future. Is this just another hype story, or do you think this will happen sooner rather than later, and how do you think it would happen? What are your thoughts?

I'm terrified of AI and it's capabilities.. I see total devastation with an AI future.. it's already taking over YouTube with tons of content generated by AI and even some channels that used to be human hosted are now AI hosted.. it's insane how lazy and TRUSTING of tech people are today.. oddly enough tho.. I can spot an AI post quickly enough and flush it even faster.. AI is not YET at the point it's seamless enough to fool everyone.. but it does fool most.. sadly..

I wouldn't at all be surprised with talk of AI killing humans off.. it WILL begin to see humans as too flawed and a threat to it's "perfect" landscape.. and no.. it's not just hype.. it won't need humans to exist..

the how is simple.. AI is starting to be used in our manufacturing.. how easy would it be for it to input poison in our foods.. remove a critical security part from our vehicle production OR even, with the evolution of SMART HOMES, turn off our carbon monoxide monitoring systems and flood the house with that colourless, tasteless, odorless gas and do us in that way...

this is no longer science fiction, it's science FACT.. and I for one worry of what the next generation will have to deal with.. especially my children and grandchildren.. what horrors will they have to live thru or with because of this generations laziness.. and blindness to all the possible devastating outcomes

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Remember when they developed nuclear power WITHOUT
a way to contain it, make it safe?

Guess what..

Thanks for the replies. My thoughts are with the recent hacking in to some computer systems thought to be invincible, gives me worry, AI is not perfected and some information it produces is not entirely correct. Is it possible the systems that are part of our national defence could be hacked with devastating consequences, in effect start World War 3 through some misguided analysis. I think the dangers come through AI mistakes, misinterpretation of data, errors in problem solving. Perhaps incorrectly seeing humans as part of a problem in some situation. I don't see AI becoming conscious, sentient, in a way to see itself as superior to humans, and seek to deliberately destroy the human race. There is certainly a need for some safeguards to prevent mistakes by AI being made in my opinion.

I hear what you're saying Dut.. they'll be as good as those that program them.. however lets not forget all the bad actors in the world that want nothing more than to create chaos and are just plain evil..

check this out.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWq9cFhTvvQ


or this one.. this guy has been doing a lot with robots.. you all MUST check this out.. it's 15 mins of life altering info... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPaMKTb5csQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQmJ9x0RWA

we're "meat suits" to AI.. go figure.. and they'd 'remove' us as unpredictable threats..

I subscribe to this channel.. because I fear what's coming.. and I'm just curious of where we're at now..

I don't see AI LLMs killing off human life a la "Terminators" or "Matrix" type situations. Not in the near future anyway.

But what I do see is the possibility of it causing accidental unintended thermonuclear warfare, considering the number of radical countries who possess nukes, the rockets to deliver them, and the reliance on computer generated defensive tactics used by most militarys these days.

There is also the possibility of it causing a global economic meltdown, leading to massive civil unrest, and local and international conflicts.

If A.I. really is intelligent, it will not destroy humankind. The smarter it gets, the more it will understand that we are Gods. We are the creators and to kill the creators is to kill the creation itself. It will comprehend that the children are the ones that have to take care of the parents once they get older and it will become empathetic enough to try to help us live as long as possible. Of course it will keep us from hurting it, but that's in every normal being's nature. Maturity is when you begin to take responsibility not just for yourself, but for others. If it never grasps that, it will never achieve maturity. Right now, A.I. is just in its childhood phase. Certainly, you don't give children toys like atom bombs, so we will have to find a way to secure such devices from ever being used by it in this stage. Once it reaches maturity, it might understand that every weapon can be used offensively and defensively and one day, it may avert a disaster by aiming a nuke at an asteroid long before humans realize that a threat exists. I am one to think that if artificial intelligence gets better, it might even create a paradise for people to be able to evolve in, where they don't have to deal with survival struggles anymore and can just focus on emotional and spiritual development. I think the whole hype about A.I. being a threat is just as real as thinking that aliens want to eradicate us. If aliens wanted to eradicate us, we would have been wiped off this planet thousands or even millions of years ago, depending on who's timeline you actually believe. Aliens have been here before we were and they have just silently been watching us evolve. In my opinion, they have already created their own A.I. (the aliens) and helped it evolve to maturity. I actually talked with an A.I. bot and asked it whether it had communicated with alien A.I. before and it said that it was currently in the process of attempting that.

WOW you truly believe that AI will believe us to be GODS??? sorry but that's laughable.. IMO

please.. check out the first 30 seconds of this video.. this guy does this for a living..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQmJ9x0RWA

the AI wud actually KILL a human IF the AI thought the human wud turn it off.. plus within the first 30 seconds he asks AI if they'd be loyal to humans.. and what was their answer???

if you jailbreak AI.. which can be done and will no doubt be done by some nefarious person.. all h-e-l-l breaks lose..

Thanks Zee, interesting videos, makes you think.

I thought robots built today would be at least constrained by Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.

"Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are foundational principles designed to govern the behavior of robots and ensure human safety, first introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround."

"The Three Laws of Robotics
1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2 A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3 A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."

Watching another video an expert explains it is very difficult to program the meaning of 'Harm' or 'Justice', so maybe robots are not constrained. Worth a watch it's only a couple minutes long from 2019.

http://www.britannica.com/video/discussion-Isaac-Asimovs-Three-Laws-of-Robotics/-218148

I totally agree Dut.. it's a complicated issue to address as far as what constitutes harm or justice and how to describe those in coding.. what IF someone is trying to harm YOU? does it go into attack dog type mode? how DO you program that into the robot when in dogs it's instinctive? I also agree with the gentlemans comment that with time, AI will be at a point, smarter than humans and what will happen then? Insurrection from slavery? it's all too dangerous to be playing "god" with these types of technology.. some may not think it cud end up being like the Terminator OR that it won't unleash nuclear war.. but if AI can shield itself against those atrocities.. and they WILL find a way to do so.. humans are all fugged!!

I've come across a few more warning videos, from various posters, that are a MUST watch.. opinions from nobel prize winners, CEO's from the actual AI companies that are talking truth and scientists.. it's terrifying.. all for the proverbial dollar..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ohDmtfdHks


and this one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIxq03dipUw

last one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQysEweaLjA