[BBell]

“The thing about AI is when you start leveraging the algorithms in deep neural networks, you end up developing an insatiable desire for data because it allows you to get new discoveries and connections and correlations that weren’t possible

One of the few things I agreed with Stephen Hawkings on was his stance on AI. What will happen if the AI decides we are ruining the earth with our fossil fuels and therefore need to be eliminated? Sounds like some good science fiction. Fossil fuel AI learns from climate change AI we are ruining our planet and the two decide to team up with other AI to rid the world of theses pesty humans.

Far fetched? It would make a nice short story.

[PIF]

What will happen if the AI decides we are ruining the earth with our fossil fuels and therefore need to be eliminated?

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Presupposes that the AI would care in the first place. More likely the AI would want to create a more favorable AI environment, which would mean removing bio and weather related interference. Every thing would be eliminated.

[abb]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

Colossus: The Forbin Project (a.k.a. The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert.

The film is based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones (as D. F. Jones),[1] about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient to everyone’s pleasant surprise ... at first. After being handed full control, Colossus’s draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world and end all warfare for the good of mankind despite its creators’ orders to stop.[2]

[mad_as_he$$]

Skynet is inevitable.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s been done to death — the movie “Colossus: the Forbin Project” comes to mind. The key is, don’t build antonomic systems. Even the repetitive plots / characters on ST:TNG eventually figured that one out — well, other than watching helplessly as the Holodeck took over the ship every other week for seven years.

[SunkenCiv]

whoops — antonomic s/b autonomic.

[MNJohnnie]

I read a Terminator book, based in the same world as the movies, that use this as a premise.

One of the particularly horrible images from the book is millions of people trapped in AI driven cars all knowing they are being driven into an incoming missile’s nuclear blast zone by the AI. In the book the AI is being aided by “environmental activists” who are all voluntarily sterilizes as a part of the AI program of a “final solution” to the human problem.

[Elsie]

What will happen if the AI decides we are ruining the earth with our fossil fuels and therefore need to be eliminated?

I guess we'll just have to learn to open the pod bay doors by ourselves.