kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social

the idea ai would become sentient and kill us all was always a ridiculous shiny object to distract from the vastly more obvious outcome that humans would simply exploit ai as a dumb tool for killing with no accountability

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@easttopekan.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

Kissinger wishes he had a program to blame.

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🌲 𝙾𝚊𝚔𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚜 🌲 🌿🐀 @sylvanrat.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

What humanity feared in AI has always been what it fears in itself.

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Kavi @brittexkavi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:53 UTC

Years ago, I watched a Black Mirror episode where the soldier had a neurological implant that disguised humans as mutants. The idea was to limit human emotion (and PTSD) in killing “targets” of civilians including women & children. This reminds me of that episode. 💔

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The Pumpkin Dipshit @pumpkinpal.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

I get mad when people post that old IBM "a computer can never be held accountable" slide because it's brutally obvious that the actual followup is "A computer can never be held accountable, that's amazing, have it make ALL of the decisions and kill accountability forever"

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

So they adopted Hydra’s plot in The Winter Soldier except with even more war crimes.

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Yam bag jones @johndahlgren.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

They might as well use a magic 8 ball because it would yield the same results for them. “We pondered our orb and it says bomb here”

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Aviendha69 - ⊃∪∩⪽ @aviendha69.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

outsourcing responsibility.

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braak @braak.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

danger with AI was never that it was going to disobey orders and start killing people; the danger was always just that it would follow them

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Jess @mirrorman.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

Wasn't this the plot of one of the Captain America movies?

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(=_=) Hype Tornado /Capt. Nemo/// @joulesbyrne.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

The first "kill all humans" AI will only need a slight glitch in its "kill some humans" programming (since we've thrown Asimov's quaint "laws" out the window).

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Jessica Mulein @jessicamulein.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

To which the sentient AI responds by destroying us or enslaving us.

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Gutt Levy @stomachtax.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

Yes, but also, murdering robots within our lifetimes

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bold as love @boldaslove.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

Israel comes home very, very late smelling like a combination of an astray, whisky, and lavender. SO: "Where have you been?!?" Israel: "Just... You know... Out." SO: "Is that... lipstick on your collar?" Israel: "We can talk about it in morning. Look, it was the AI..."

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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃 @sporkboot.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

i maintain that a true ai programmed by a human would be more liable to have human neurosis and obsessions so you might find a chatty ai that is REALLY into like, idk, true blood or some weird webcomic

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Sharmake Farah 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🍉 @sharmake.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

I don't think it's a distraction, but you're correct that AI misuse like Israel's misuse where they follow orders, but lead to horrifying outcomes for people was always way more likely than AI misalignment/not following our orders.

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Brian Danger Hicks @ckape.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 20:45 UTC

We have created ED-209 from the classic film "Don't Create ED-209"

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Joe Sweeney @jsweeney73.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

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Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 20:20 UTC

It was rarely brought up seriously except as a straw man by people who wanted to play the worry-free pundit. Everything happening was described by actual critics.

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Justin Noormand @justin-noormand.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

Indeed. In 1982, James Cameron knew about the “kill algorithm” and Terminator was social engineering.

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Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

Yep

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Debate Stomping Robot @jwatte.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 01:31 UTC

Presumably, whoever approved that order is on the hook then. At least, we can hope.

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Mike Bartley @anothermike100.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

I hope they're not going to weasel out of responsibility by blaming genocide and insouciant murder on a machine.

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Ian McIntire @ianmcin.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE RACIST BILLIONAIRE BEHIND THE CURTAIN!” - the Great and Powerful Skynet, probably

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Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

Meanwhile, Skynet is trying to get people SWATed by the NYPD...

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Jeff (no, the other one) @jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:36 UTC

“WE DO WHAT WE’RE TOLD…”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5XZ_...

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Mike Gallinari, Pentagon Psyop @weigard.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

I'm not worried about AI taking jobs as I am about executives doing mass layoffs because they think AI can do employee's jobs.

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@tcbyrd.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

I’m sure its lost on plenty of people, but the whole sentient AI thing in fiction is almost always meant to be an allegory for exactly this: www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-c...

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

The latter logically leads to the former.

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bognebomr @bogenbroom.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

this system is so near to choosing people to kill based on their social media follows

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@darkwebmallcop.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

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JJ is tired @jjofbc.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

This was always the most obvious outcome. Whether it was deciding who to let die in an emergency room, who to cut off benefits or who to bomb, the primary use case of AI in world like this is creating a screen against accountability in making decisions that hurt people

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