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I challenge anyone to come up with any way at all to kill all humans. It’s essentially impossible. There’s a 0% chance AI will kill all humans.

jay_kyburz 7d ago
Just need to pollute the atmosphere so badly humans can't live. If I were AI and needed heaps of power, I would build nuclear reactors, but I don't care about pollution so there would be little to no safe guards and just dump waste wherever is most convenient. If humans attempt to intervene or interfere you can take them out directly using the worlds reserve of nuclear weapons.
- andrewstuart 7d ago
  Good setup for a computer game.
olmo23 7d ago
If it wanted to: total war using nukes, followed by a nuclear winter. Satellites and drones track and exterminate remaining pockets of anthropic activity. It doesn't need to have a habitable earth, it just needs atoms.
- andrewstuart 7d ago
  This is science fiction. How would AI do this? May as well say AI would send a spaceship to pull an asteroid to earth. I’m interested in realistic scenarios to justify what these AI psychosis people are genuinely worried about.
  - majkinetor 7d ago
    That actually seems achievable (DART). Congratz, you nailed it.
- majkinetor 7d ago
  Atoms are not exactly in short supply
Lutger 7d ago
Won't a nuclear winter kill 100% of humans? Or runaway climate change (5+ degrees)? Or do you think some people in bunkers will live through these events?
- Const-me 7d ago
  I think nuclear winter is a fake invented by cold war propaganda. If tomorrow we detonate all nukes available, the amount of dust in the atmosphere won’t even approach a large volcanic eruption. Volcanic eruptions occasionally inject literally cubic kilometres of stuff high into the atmosphere. That’s insufficient to cause a global winter, only a year without a summer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
- andrewstuart 7d ago
  Humans don’t need AI to do that temperature. And we’ve already exploded many hundreds of nuclear weapons and no nuclear winter.
- majkinetor 7d ago
  I believe it would kill most humans, but all, no.

jay_kyburz 7d ago

Just need to pollute the atmosphere so badly humans can't live. If I were AI and needed heaps of power, I would build nuclear reactors, but I don't care about pollution so there would be little to no safe guards and just dump waste wherever is most convenient. If humans attempt to intervene or interfere you can take them out directly using the worlds reserve of nuclear weapons.

andrewstuart 7d ago
Good setup for a computer game.

olmo23 7d ago

If it wanted to: total war using nukes, followed by a nuclear winter. Satellites and drones track and exterminate remaining pockets of anthropic activity. It doesn't need to have a habitable earth, it just needs atoms.

andrewstuart 7d ago
This is science fiction. How would AI do this? May as well say AI would send a spaceship to pull an asteroid to earth. I’m interested in realistic scenarios to justify what these AI psychosis people are genuinely worried about.
- majkinetor 7d ago
  That actually seems achievable (DART). Congratz, you nailed it.
majkinetor 7d ago
Atoms are not exactly in short supply

Lutger 7d ago

Won't a nuclear winter kill 100% of humans? Or runaway climate change (5+ degrees)? Or do you think some people in bunkers will live through these events?

Const-me 7d ago
I think nuclear winter is a fake invented by cold war propaganda. If tomorrow we detonate all nukes available, the amount of dust in the atmosphere won’t even approach a large volcanic eruption. Volcanic eruptions occasionally inject literally cubic kilometres of stuff high into the atmosphere. That’s insufficient to cause a global winter, only a year without a summer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
andrewstuart 7d ago
Humans don’t need AI to do that temperature. And we’ve already exploded many hundreds of nuclear weapons and no nuclear winter.
majkinetor 7d ago
I believe it would kill most humans, but all, no.