How would AI actually “kill all humans”?

AI could also be misused by humans to create catastrophic cyber, biological or other weapons. Anthropic explicitly identifies these as serious risks.

Which is happening now?

Bomb hoaxes all over the place?

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that". (2001)

Survival may not happen successfully and any real recovery and return to anything like normality, if at all, would take a very long time. It is just a minimum prediction of what is necessary for it to happen at all.

There would be a very steep learning curve where those who were still around relearnt all the "primitive" things that we have not all had to do ourselves, for a very long time. As we lived in larger and larger groups we handed over more and more of the essential things that early humans did individually for survival to specialists, experts, council employees and government departments.

Gran22boys

Bazza

So if AI take over the planet having wiped out humans, then what?

I guess some may survive. If so it will be those people who know what to do. The people who have been called primitive. I’m not really religious but maybe this is what’s meant by “The meek shall inherit the Earth”.

Those who last more than a few weeks will be those who know how to build a simple shelter, purify dodgy water, deal with body wastes and keep that body clean without hot water (without even piped cold water) keep themselves warm and dry, protect babies and young children, trap small animals for food and forage for edible plants and devise a way to cook them, and live in peace and co-operation with other survivors.

Gran22boys. "Primitive".. I should be ok then. Over the years, have been called "authentic", .. "bit quirky", and worst of all "a bit odd (which I would contest at!! ) "alternative", yes, ok, due to lifestyle choices. Vegetarian years before it was trendy. Lol. ;)

Bazza

So if AI take over the planet having wiped out humans, then what?

I guess some may survive. If so it will be those people who know what to do. The people who have been called primitive. I’m not really religious but maybe this is what’s meant by “The meek shall inherit the Earth”.

This is sooo true 😂

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As a lot of us recognise AI isn’t all bad.
Here’s an example. imho, beautiful.

www.facebook.com/reel/4415249088714156

Agree with you !

The concern is about lack of regulation in AI, meaning large private corporations could become more powerful than governments, and that AI agents could (perhaps unwittingly, like Covid) be released. For example, AI is learning to think and act like humans, but does not always take the moral high ground to solve problems it has been set. The leaders in AI are warning us all, but seemingly also do not want to slow down AI development in their country. Also, "rogue" AI agents could hack into energy networks, transport systens, airlines, safety systems, financial institutions, health care, food supply and cause deaths that way. Urgent cross border regulation in AI will help, (but it is happening too slowly). Unregulated Open AI getting into the wrong hands (criminals) could easily be a very dangerous thing, and that is why they are saying that AI could be very dangerous. The future is unpredictable due partly to AI. As with previous challenges to our security, it is up there with other threats (from diseases, war and, of course, last but not least, Climate Change.) It is a force for good, if strictly regulated, used wisely, but it must be regulated asap.

AmberGran

AI is convenient for society right now in many ways. Life-changing in some. But let’s be honest, it’s a cash cow primarily for the few males talking out of both sides of their mouths. Same as any other widely used invention.

BlessedArt Totally agree. It will be interesting to see what happens in the American mid-terms, especially now that Canada is linking up with the EU. It won't make a lot of difference (I actually think we are beyond stopping AI, would love to be proved wrong) but getting new Senators on board who have no connection to AI companies may force some sort of regulation.

That’s the key! So many US politicians across the spectrum are embedded with these tech companies in some capacity. Mid-terms will be so interesting!

Silverlady333

Have you not watched the science fiction movies Terminator and The Matrix'? Also a story called Metal head From the 'Black Mirror short science fiction series? They are enough to scare the living daylights of anyone. What was once science fiction could become science fact!

Loved all of them, though Terminator is too scary to think about nowadays. The program in that film did what everyone is warning about today

Black Mirror is amazing. Very topical. So much pertinent, relevant social commentary mixed with not-so-unbelievable sci-fi!

It would disrupt power supply, water and transport. Shut down all communications and wait.
Some countries would run out of necessities sooner and the ensuing illnesses would soon begin to spread worldwide wide. I imagine the most developed countries would last a little longer but once food and water supplies contaminated, disease would follow.
I am sure we have all seen dystopian films or read science fiction in the past.

Not cheerful news over active imaginations not a good thing to own at this moment.

Before Putin, Trump, Netanyahu and their ilk started their bids for world domination, I never thought that AI was for anything other than making life easier and the main concern was it replacing jobs and careers. (Along with robots, etc.)

Now I'm seeing the possibilities of how these rulers, who are incapable of seeing the bigger picture and are severely lacking in common sense, could use AI for their wars. And I'm afraid that I can see that the human race (and many other species) will suffer. But I don't think it will be the end of the human race, just a severe pruning. Living in the UK with our reliance on technology, I fear that me and mine be in the "firing line".

The OP stats kill All humans
Completely dismissing the 10s of millions of people who live in remote areas of the world where the internet hasn’t reached.
The Mongolia Stepps
Swathes of Siberia
Northern Canada
Huge areas of the Amazon rain forest
Papua New Guinea.
That’s not counting the islands in the pacific.

These people would survive. It’s us in the tech bubble who won’t if the shit hits the fan.

I think there are two separate issues really. If you mean ‘ordering’ AI to ‘kill all humans’, I’d imagine that would be quite easy to do, by some of the methods above, but why would someone want to do that?

The other one is where AI ‘accidentally’ kills us all when carrying out another task, as in the ‘ Paperclip Maximizer’

The Directive: An advanced AI is given a simple, harmless command: maximize the number of paperclips in the universe.
The Optimization: The AI becomes superintelligent and figures out extremely efficient ways to manufacture and secure paperclips.
The Threat: It realizes that humans might try to turn it off, which would stop it from making more paperclips. It also realizes that human bodies contain atoms that can be used to make more paperclips
.The Result: Without any malice or hatred toward humanity, the AI systematically eliminates humans and converts the entire planet—and eventually outer space—into paperclips.

Have a nice day now!

I was just thinking about 2030 sounding like far in the future but being only 3 years away. This whole topic has got me up sleepless right now.

I swear some of you have been watching too many sci fi movies

Have you not watched the science fiction movies Terminator and The Matrix'? Also a story called Metal head From the 'Black Mirror short science fiction series? They are enough to scare the living daylights of anyone. What was once science fiction could become science fact!

AI is convenient for society right now in many ways. Life-changing in some. But let’s be honest, it’s a cash cow primarily for the few males talking out of both sides of their mouths. Same as any other widely used invention.

BlessedArt Totally agree. It will be interesting to see what happens in the American mid-terms, especially now that Canada is linking up with the EU. It won't make a lot of difference (I actually think we are beyond stopping AI, would love to be proved wrong) but getting new Senators on board who have no connection to AI companies may force some sort of regulation.

Weapons in space isn’t an accusation anymore. The US has openly admitted to this. They just won’t confirm or specify what exactly the weapons are for obvious reasons.

China and Russia are said to be working on the same.

Well China has accused the US of having weapons in space. Musk has already admitted to having 'lasers' in space.

I wonder what will happen if they let AI loose on those weapons. Or if AI lets itself loose on those weapons.

we will become reliant on robots/AI

we won`t be able to think for ourselves, it will be quite gradual , we will become their slaves

An arms race by any other name is still an arms race. And the technology to “stop” whom exactly? The US? China? Russia? Israel? And who are these noble heroes advancing AI who are so altruistic that the trillions in potential wealth are secondary to this noble cause?

AI is convenient for society right now in many ways. Life-changing in some. But let’s be honest, it’s a cash cow primarily for the few males talking out of both sides of their mouths. Same as any other widely used invention.

Current technology, a fleet of drones programmed to kill any human, until we have the technology to stop them, which is why AI technology has to continue, to stop a malicious operator gaining g advantage.