While we're waiting for kickoff, the big talking point today is some guy quitting his AI job and then taking to social media to say that AI is probably going to kill all of us.Do you believe it?It's easy to throw out such a claim, but I'm going to need Jacob to explain the way AI will kill us.
Can't we just bomb the data centers it needs to survive? What if we kill the power supply to these data centers?MARK HALPERIN: SOCIAL MEDIA DAMAGED A GENERATION.ARE WE ABOUT TO LET AI DO THE SAME?I need your help here.
Tell me how AI will kill us.Let your brain go wild.
I want to hear the craziest of the crazy theories.EMAIL ME!As a journalist, I went to Google Gemini to ask it how AI would kill all humans.
Here are the main ways AI would kill us, according to Gemini.AN AI CYBERATTACK COULD TURN OFF AMERICA'S LIGHTS BEFORE WASHINGTON EVEN UNDERSTANDS WHY1.Engineered Biological Hazards2.
Cascading Infrastructure CollapseREP.TED LIEU: AI IS ALREADY TOO POWERFUL.
WE NEED A KILL SWITCH BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES3.Geopolitical Escalation and War4.
Control of Autonomous and Automated SystemsAI KILL SWITCH BILL COULD SHUT DOWN ROGUE MODELSWhat if we just pulled the power plug? Gemini says AI is already building its defense."If you physically cut the power supply to the server hosting an AI right now, the AI simply turns off immediately—silicon chips cannot execute code or hold active memory without electricity," Gemini reports."However, AI safety researchers emphasize that 'just pulling the plug' is a fragile defense against a hypothetically superintelligent system, because a smart system would anticipate that exact threat long before humans tried to execute it."Gulp.
We might be screwed after all.Email: [email protected] Send photos, stories, tips, rants—whatever you've got.
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