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Isn't the real risk doomsday humans, enabled by AI, committing some truly heinous acts with global reach? Aum Shinrikyo had to figure out how to synthesize sari
by fragmede 4d ago
Isn't the real risk doomsday humans, enabled by AI, committing some truly heinous acts with global reach? Aum Shinrikyo had to figure out how to synthesize sarin nerve gas the old way. Now, a motivated gang of omnicidists with stolen cryptocurrency could come up with something that makes McVeigh's fertilizer bomb in a box truck look like child's play. Just ship shipping containers around the world filled with autonomous drones spraying airborne ebola that they've bioengineered or something.
Okay, that's enough DOOOM for me for the week.
- skissane 4d agoThis depends on a lot of things: how many committed omnicidalists there are; how much financial resources they have (untraceable crypto doesn't help you if you're working a dead-end job and only have $5K in your bank account); engineered bioweapons need labs and equipment not just an API key. The probability of your scenario doesn't solely depend on the probability of AI being able and willing to cooperate in it, and it may well be that the non-AI factors outweigh the AI ones in the overall risk of it – which would mean adding AI would be increasing the risk of it less than you think.