| ▲ | Jamesbeam 8 hours ago | |
I think we should stop attributing criminal AIctivities to some act of bad luck, like spilling a water bowl after we accidentally tripped over the cat in the kitchen. It’s neither intelligent nor making decisions on its own free will. Just like APT Botnets don’t go "rogue", someone gave it the instruction to hack your computer system and they are expecting financial benefits from it. AI labs are basically criminal enterprises by design. We used to call this cybercrime back in the day and it used to carry heavy prison sentences as a federal offence. But as you can see, cybercrime as a service has basically become a pissing contest by the super wealthy. They stole all the world’s intellectual property to build the world’s most sophisticated cybercrime machine and federal law or any law no longer applies to them. Also because the mightiest man on the planet and his clan of extraordinary white collar criminals are cashing in big on this. It will be interesting to see what happens next. All this capability signalling happened also when the first nuclear bombs were developed. Then the US army started killing nuclear scientists around the globe in order to prevent others from having the bomb first. The signal to other nations here is we are developing a weapon capable of breaking into any of your secured information systems and we pretend we put in guardrails but we really don’t. That is an essential threat to the existence of any other nation on the planet. When this race starts to go hot, I don’t want to be in the shoes of the people being the frontier thinkers in the field. It’s one thing developing the tools for autonomous weapon systems in your AI labs. It’s a completely different thing to be on the receiving end. https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-killed-irans-top-nuke-s... | ||
| ▲ | Bluestein 8 hours ago | parent [-] | |
The whole thing is taking on a "gangsta" flair. We are in the drive-by shooting, 'shot the beef in public' phase. Only with global connotations.- PS. Thinking about it, "Google Gangsta" does have a ring. Gives "Big G" a whole new dimension.- | ||