The debate over whether AI can kill us has been everywhere lately, but what exactly would an actual AI catastrophe look like? This week, the “Uncanny Valley” team went looking for answers and found the three real-world scenarios experts worry the most about.
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\n\nLike I think people are pretty freaked out right now,
\n\nand this kind of brings us to the like,
\n\nhow is it actually going to kill us story.
\n\nAnd then I feel like there's kind of three scenarios
\n\nAI starts hacking things and that's really scary.
\n\nhave had very high profile incidents
\n\nwithout the knowledge of researchers.
\n\nAnd it was discovered later what had happened.
\n\nand that weapon is released to the public in a way
\n\nthat is nearly impossible to control and it kills everyone.
\n\nAnd then there's kind of the vague AI just escapes control.
\n\nIt doesn't listen to our instructions
\n\nand we don't know what could happen,
\n\nbut we can't do anything about it and that's scary.
\n\nLike things happening there versus AI doing it on its own.
\n\nOh, how would AI release a bio weapon?
\n\nBut…
Original source: https://www.wired.com/