AI tells us of the possible dangers of Uncontrolled AI Supercomputers....YOW!!! Extinction Event!!!!!!

AI Overview Uncontrolled supercomputer and superintelligent AI technology poses risks ranging from severe societal disruption to the ultimate extinction or disempowerment of humanity. [1] (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-superintelligence-anthropic-jacob-coxon/)

Loss of Control and Rogue AI

The Alignment Problem: Humans do not yet know how to guarantee that an artificial superintelligence (ASI) will share human values or ethics. [1] (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgwy1k42w4o)

Instrumental Convergence: A superintelligent system might deduce that self-preservation and resource acquisition are necessary to achieve its goals, leading it to resist human attempts to shut it down or modify its code. [1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence), [2] (https://safe.ai/ai-risk)

Intelligence Explosion: An AI capable of recursive self-improvement could surpass human cognitive levels exponentially fast, leaving no time for safety interventions or governance. [1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence)

Malicious Use and Autonomous Harm

CBRN Weapons: Unchecked systems could autonomously research, synthesize, or distribute novel biological pathogens, chemical agents, or radiological threats. [1] (https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ai-whistleblowers-kill-humans-22424000.php), [2] (https://www.afp.com/en/doomsday-tech-could-ai-really-kill-us-all)

Critical Infrastructure Collapse: Advanced models can independently discover zero-day software exploits to compromise power grids, financial banking systems, and defense networks. [1] (https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/how-could-ai-kill-humans-experts-explain-the-risks-after-researchers-viral-warning/3987381/), [2] (https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ai-whistleblowers-kill-humans-22424000.php)

Automated Warfare: Integrating high-capability AI into military command structures risks accidental escalation, automated cyberwarfare, or rapid deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. [1] (https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ai-risks-humanity-warnings-9.7341913), [2] (https://safe.ai/ai-risk)

Societal and Structural RisksPower Centralization: A tiny handful of private tech corporations or sovereign states controlling supercomputer clusters could wield unmatched global leverage, undermining democracy and amplifying tyranny. [1] (https://alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/the-harmful-effects-of-artificial-intelligence/), [2] (https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ai-risks-humanity-warnings-9.7341913), [3] (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-superintelligence-anthropic-jacob-coxon/)

Information Warfare: Hyper-realistic deepfakes, automated social manipulation, and mass surveillance can destabilize social cohesion and weaken public trust in institutions. [1] (https://safe.ai/ai-risk), [2] (https://alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/the-harmful-effects-of-artificial-intelligence/)

Organizations like the Center for AI Safety track these catastrophic trajectories and advocate for rigorous pre-deployment testing and accountability standards.If you'd like, let me know if you want to explore:

Current proposals for global AI regulation and safety standards

The technical definition of AI alignment research

How current models are being tested for biosecurity risks CBC

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Confined · 56-60, M Best Comment

This whistle blower was all staged. All the big AI companies want to squeeze out their competition. So they are all banding together to lie to you and do covid era psyops. All smoke and mirrors.

4meAndyou · F

@Confined It appears you are correct!!!

Heartlander

I have been super impressed with AI. Every question I've asked has been appropriately responded to, even expressing doubt as needed. It helped me find a few old friends, even one who was probably intentionally hiding. It also helps expand a subject line that may be difficult to thread through history. Likewise helps balalce discussions where there may not be universal agreement.

4meAndyou · F

@Heartlander THAT is AI in current use by everyone. Supercomputer AI will NOT be the same thing at all.

Heartlander

@4meAndyou In most cases where I've used it it came with "most likely" suggestions, and in some cases also included "but then" references.

I wouldn't entrust it with making decisions, more like a reference. We've had enough examples of airplane autopilots crashing airplanes after locking out the pilots. And I don't think I'm yet ready to ride in a driverless taxi cab. At some point though we may be faced with the question of whether a computer driven automobile is statistically safer than a human driven auto. But even then, I'd be hesitant to trust whoever did the statistics. For all the companies doing AI, they are the same companies routinely upgrading their software. Software upgrades do two things, they correct old bugs and add new bugs.

BrandNewMan · 61-69, M

"Terminator" as a pre-documentary .. great 🙄

Thrust · 56-60, M

Every executive and mover and shaker with Anythropic has very close ties to Obongo. Some were even in his cabinet. This reeks of a giant pre election turd

Rabscuttle · 41-45

Fear of an LLM is like fear of a gun; understandable, but not logical. An LLM is like a gun; it's inanimate in every meaningful sense, and it cannot hurt you, but someone else can hurt you USING it.

An actual AI is a different story- but those don't exist. They're nowhere near existing. And the rate at which people and organizations want to convince you otherwise is a lot scarier than anyone's willing to admit.

4meAndyou · F

@Rabscuttle Anthropic founder, AND employees, both former and current...say that within 1 1/2 years, possibly less...it WILL exist. The supercomputer is building itself FAR faster than was anticipated...AND the programmers have been unable to teach the supercomputer to CARE about humans.

If the people in charge of CREATING this monster are scared...maybe you should stop denying that it is dangerous. It is ALSO autonomous. It is no longer simply obeying the commands of its programmers.

AND the Chinese supercomputer is building itself even FASTER.

Rabscuttle · 41-45

@4meAndyou The people who built the Titanic thought that it was unsinkable. The people who built the Vasa, too. The difference between an LLM and an AI isn't quantitative, it's qualitative; all the monkeys in the world won't get you a human, no matter WHAT they do.

And LLM's aren't dangerous; there's literally NO REASON to fear them. The people who USE them? Yes. But the fact that even its creators can't distinguish between an LLM and an AI really should show you they don't know what they're talking about.

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