What happens in the scenario where a super-intelligence just uses social engineering and a human is his arms and legs?
AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.”
Submitted 11 months ago by dominiquec@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://thenewstack.io/bryan-cantrill-on-ai-doomerism-intelligence-is-not-enough/
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teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I loved Eagle Eye when it came out, I was 10(?). I never ever see it get mentioned though, maybe it doesn’t hold up idrk but the concept is great and shows exactly how that could happen
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Honest question, is this Eagle Eye? sh.itjust.works/post/10786110
They’re calling it EagleAI
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 months ago
spoiler
Just yesterday I saw the movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=36PDeN9NRZ0
Bipta@kbin.social 11 months ago
This is the dumbest take. Humans have a lot of needs and the AI will likely have considerable control over them.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would argue society would come to near-collapse with just the internet shut down. If we are talking about no power grid, then anarchy and millions dead in just a few days. Or Mr. AI could display fabricated system data to nuclear power plant operators, blackmail some idiot with their nude photos to give up rocket launch codes, or crash the financial markets with a flood of fake news. I am no way a doomer, but these are logically explainable scenarios utilizing existing tools, the missing link is an GAI who is capable and intends to do these.
ikidd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, there’s a complete lack of imagination for you.
rosymind@leminal.space 11 months ago
Seriously!
Oh, you’ve tasked AI with managing banking? K. All bank funds are suddenly corrupted. Oh, you’ve tasked AI with managing lights at traffic intersections? K, they’re all green now. Oh, you’ve tasked AI with filtering 911 calls to dispachers? K, all real emergencies are on hold until disconnected
I could go on and on and on…
FishFace@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve got a great idea. Let’s not do those things.
ikidd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh, AI is running your water treatment plant? Or a chemical plant on the outskirts of the city? Or the nuclear plant?
Good luck with that.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You tasked AI with doing therapy for people? Congrats now humanity as a whole is getting more miserable.
mutch@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Well, enlighten us.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Social media corruption, blackmail and extortion, attacks on financial exchanges, compromising control systems for infrastructure, altering police records, messing with your taxes, changing prescriptions, changing you to legally dead, draining your bank account.
Given full control over computers some being could easily dump child porn on your personal devices and get a SWAT team to come out. That is just you, I am sure you have family and friends. So yeah you will do what that being says which includes giving it more power
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Who needs arm & leg if you can make the humans kill each other?
stewsters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly you probably don’t even need to exist to do that.
Humans have been trying hard to do that on their own.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What are you talking about? We all live in peace and harmony here.
Gosh, I want to kill my neighbor.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think a sufficient “Doom Scenario” would be an AI that is widespread and capable enough to poison the well of knowledge we ask it to regurgitate back at us out of laziness.
rsuri@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s pretty much social media today.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yep. People believe the no evidence bullshit that reinforces their current mindset spouted online without LLMs being in the mix.
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You best start believing in societal collapse stories, cause you’re in one.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Meanwhile, the power grid, traffic controls, and myriad infrastructure & adjacent internet-connected software will be using AI, if not already.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone 11 months ago
You have a very high opinion of the level of technology running power grids, traffic systems and other infrastructure in most parts of the world.
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m pretty sure all of the things you listed run on Pentium 4s.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
None of which can be used to "kill all humans."
Kill a bunch of humans, sure. After which the AI will be shut down and unable to kill any more, and next time we build systems like that we'll be more cautious.
I find it a very common mistake in these sorts of discussions to blend together "kills a bunch of people" or even "destroys civilization" with "kills literally everyone everywhere, forever." These are two wildly different sorts of things and the latter is just not plausible without assuming all kinds of magical abilities.
subignition@kbin.social 11 months ago
While I appreciate the nitpick, I think it's likely the case that "kills a bunch of people" is also something we want to avoid...
DABDA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
After which the AI will be shut down and unable to kill any more, and next time we build systems like that we’ll be more cautious.
I think that’s an overly simplistic assumption if you’re dealing with advanced A(G)I systems. Here’s a couple Computerphile videos that discuss potential problems with building in stop buttons: AI “Stop Button” Problem (Piped mirror) and Stop Button Solution? (Piped mirror).
Both videos are from ~6 years ago so maybe there’s been conclusive solutions proposed since then that I’m unaware of.
young_broccoli@kbin.social 11 months ago
Until it becomes more intelligent than us, then we are fucked, lol
What worries me more about AI right now is who will be in controll of it and how will it be used. I think we have more chances of destroying ourselves by misusing the technology (as we often do) than the technology itself.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There will be more than enough humans willing to help AI kill the others first, before realizing that “kill all humans” actually meant all humans.
Gregorech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still need humans for that sweet, sweet maintenance.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Temporarily.
pglpm@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“Bayesian analysis”? What the heck has this got to do with Bayesian analysis? Does this guy have an intelligence, artificial or otherwise?
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 11 months ago
Big word make sound smart
cygnosis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s referring to the fact that the Effective Altruism / Less Wrong crowd seems to be focused almost entirely on preventing an AI apocalypse at some point in the future, and they use a lot of obscure math and logic to explain why it’s much more important than dealing with war, homelessness, climate change, or any of the other issues that are causing actual humans to suffer today or are 100% certain to cause suffering in the near future.
pglpm@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Thank you for the explanation! – it puts that sentence into perspective. I think he put it in a somewhat unfortunate and easily misunderstood way.
Mahlzeit@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s likely a reference to Yudkowsky or someone along those lines. I don’t follow that crowd.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s hard to say for sure. He might.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
AI companies: “so what you’re saying is we should build a killbot that runs on ChatGPT?”
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“We’re not going to do that…
…because we already did!”
-Also AI companies probably
kpw@kbin.social 11 months ago
excited stock exchange noises
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
If an AI was sufficiently advanced, it could manipulate the stock market to gain a lot of wealth real fast under a corporation with falsified documents, then pay Chinese fab house to kick off the war machine.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not really. There’s no real way to manipulate other traders and they all use algorithms too. It’s people monitoring algorithms doing most of the trading. At best, AI would be slightly faster at noticing patterns and send a note to a person who tweaks the algorithm.
People who don’t invest forget: there has to be someone else on the other side of your trade willing to buy/sell. Like how do you think AI could manipulate housing prices? That’s just stocks, but slower.
r00ty@kbin.life 11 months ago
On the one hand, yes. But on the other hand when a price hits a low there will (because it's a prerequisite for the low to happen) be people selling market to the bottom. On a high there will be people buying market to the top. And they'll be doing it in big numbers as well as small.
Yes, most of the movements are caused by algorithms, no doubt. But as the price moves you'll find buyer and seller matches right up to hitting the extremes.
AI done well could in theory both learn how to capitalise on these extremes by making smart trades faster, but also know how to trick algorithms and bait humans with their trades. That is, acting like a human with knowledge of the entire history to pattern match and acting in microseconds.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There’s no way to manipulate other traders? How could that possibly be true?
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 11 months ago
doesn’t take a lot to imagine a scenario in which a lot of people die due to information manipulation or the purposeful disabling of safety systems. doesn’t take a lot to imagine a scenario where a superintelligent AI manipulates people into being its arms and legs (babe, wake up, new conspiracy theory just dropped - roko is an AI playing the long game and the basilisk is actually a recruiting tool). doesn’t take a lot to imagine an AI that’s capable of seizing control of a lot of the world’s weapons and either guiding them itself or taking advantage of onboard guidance to turn them against their owners, or using targeted strikes to provoke a war (this is a sub-idea of manipulating people into being its arms and legs). doesn’t take a lot to imagine an AI that’s capable of purposefully sabotaging the manufacture of food or medicine in such a way that it kills a lot of people before detection. doesn’t take a lot to imagine an AI capable of seizing and manipulating our traffic systems in such a way to cause a bunch of accidental deaths and injuries.
But overall my rebuttal is that this AI doom scenario has always hinged on a generalized AI, and that what people currently call “AI” is a long, long way from a generalized AI. So the article is right, ChatGPT can’t kill millions of us. Luckily no one was ever proposing that chatGPT could kill millions of us.
blazera@kbin.social 11 months ago
Thats a fun thought experiment at least. Is there any way for an AI to gain physical control on its own, within the bounds of software. It can make programs and interact with the web.
Some combination of bank hacking, 3D modeling, and ordering 3D prints delivered gets it close, but i dont know if it can seal the deal without human assistance. Some kind of assembly seems necessary, or at least powering on if it just orders a prebuilt robotic appendage.
PupBiru@kbin.social 11 months ago
inhabiting a boston dynamics robot would probably be the best option
i’d say it could probably use airtasker to get people to unwittingly do assembly of some basic physical form which it could use to build more complex things… i’d probably not count that as “human assistance” per se
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
inhabiting a boston dynamics robot would probably be the best option
Already been done: www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzOBZUFzTw
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That, in my mind, is a non-threat. AIs have no motivation; there’s no reason for an AI to do any of that.
Unless it’s being manipulated by a bad actor who wants to do those things. THAT is the real threat. And we know those bad actors exist and will use any tool at their disposal.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They have the motivation of whatever goal you programmed them with, which is probably not the goal you thought you programmed it with. See the paperclip maximiser.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nuclear weapons have no motivation
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really don’t think so. This is 15 years of factory/infrastructure experience here. You are going to need a human to turn a screwdriver somewhere.
I don’t think we need to worry about this scenario. Our hypothetical AI can just hire people. It isn’t like there would be a shortage of people who have basic assembly skills and would not have a moral problem building what is clearly a killbot. People work for Amazon, Walmart, Boeing, Nestle, Haliburton, Atena, Goldman Sachs, Faceboot, Comcast, etc. And heck even after it is clear what they did it isnt like they are going to feel bad about it. They will just say they needed a job to pay the bills. We can all have an argument about professional integrity in a bunk as drones carrying prions rain down on us.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Hey Timmy, if you solder these components I’ll tell you how to get laid”
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
He says as he conveniently ignores the existence of Boston Dynamics.
modifier@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
We’re 15 years max from the inevitable “OpenAI + Boston Dynamics: Better Together” ad after they merge.
Knusper@feddit.de 11 months ago
I mean, at this rate, I’m imagining Microsoft will have hollowed out OpenAI in a few years, but I could see them buying Boston Dynamics, too, yes