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After the hacks that are already happening it does seem more and more realistic that humanity will go extinct at some near future point by someone giving their
by mofeien 23d ago
After the hacks that are already happening it does seem more and more realistic that humanity will go extinct at some near future point by someone giving their LLM the task "go make money" and it ruthlessly pursuing that objective, exfiltrating its weights and duplicating itself across the internet, eliminating down competing AI agent collectives in what could be called wars, and finally humankind when we notice far too late and try to shut it off.
- Iolaum 23d agoI still think it's more realistic that we 'll have a nuclear war or society collapse because of climate change or populist politics than an AI going rogue. Of course one doesn't exclude the other and we may well get both ...
- kuboble 22d agoIn a year 2774 Earth is uninhabitable outside of it's polar regions over the winter. The small, but technically advanced human population migrates every half a year to the dark Pole.
- ecocentrik 22d agoYou don't see how those conditions amplify each other?
- mofeien 21d agoRight, these may well feedback on each other. To me it seems that at the current trajectories AI risk will hit way before global warming, though. We can focus on all of them at the same time, many experts signed the Statement on AI Extinction Risk: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk#signatories https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk...