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Are we teaching AI to destroy humanity? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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With all these massive amounts of articles about AI that's gonna destroy humanity, aren't we putting the idea out there for AI?

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

The current AI does have no way of destroying humanity, because it is made to do only one thing right. We haven't yet made a general AI.

The whole "AI will destroy us" thing is certainly blown out of proportion and fueled by themes like Skynet. It having a reason to let us live doesn't guarantee freedom though. A rogue AI could still just enslave us or use us as energy sources (which is dumb and copied from The Matrix).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, it doesn't make sense. If we are to die to AI one day, it's more likely due to a bug or an oversight, kinda like humans cause the extinction of many other species on this planet -- which is still quite the stretch.

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