sloonark@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years agoFive ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years agoBased on latest news and some facts: Militaries all over the world are in an arms race to get the best AIs to come up with strategy plans. Current AIs are black boxes. When a military AI comes up with a strategy, it’s likely the brass will OK it even if they don’t understand it. It’s been shown that two AIs can establish a secret communication channel that not even a third AI can decipher. In a conflict where both or more parties were to follow military strategies designed by AIs, there would be no way of knowing whether: each AI is trying to get the best outcome for its own side they’re colluding to ensure their own continued existence they blindly try to win the conflict at any cost and wipe out everyone in the process The chances of such a conflict to appear during this decade, are very high.
Based on latest news and some facts:
Militaries all over the world are in an arms race to get the best AIs to come up with strategy plans.
Current AIs are black boxes.
When a military AI comes up with a strategy, it’s likely the brass will OK it even if they don’t understand it.
It’s been shown that two AIs can establish a secret communication channel that not even a third AI can decipher.
In a conflict where both or more parties were to follow military strategies designed by AIs, there would be no way of knowing whether:
The chances of such a conflict to appear during this decade, are very high.