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AI is quickly surpassing humanity in intelligence. It is already being used with robots.

Some may laugh but the threat is real.

If we are not careful, we will all become inferior slaves to our AI/robot masters.

I don't think we will be careful.

That's exactly how i feel. I still can't get over how quickly AI responds. At first i thought "is it reading as i'm typing, is that how it's responding so fast?" So i typed up a long and complex series of paragraphs in another program, then copied it to the AI interface and immediately sent it. And immediately a long and complex answer spat back at me. Einstein once spoke of spook action at a distance, but this is spooky action right in front of us! I continue to be amazed and yet Grok3 is somehow even faster. It's seemingly instantaneous no matter how long the wall of text i confront it with.

I don't think we will be careful.

I know. I mean, there's not much in the history of mankind to give us hope in this regard. We are masters of hindsight but myopic when it comes to foresight. Normally it doesn't matter much (in terms of the welfare of humanity as a whole). A few cars go tumbling down a mountain and we say "aha, we should have put a guardrail there on that stretch of road." So we put a guardrail there. Problem solved. But this is a whole 'nother ball game. We miss putting up a guardrail here or a traffic light there (so to speak) when it comes to AI and it's might already be too late to do anything about it by the time our perfect 20/20 hindsight kicks in.

”If we are not careful, we will all become inferior slaves to our AI/robot masters.”

Not all, Sam. But those who confuse knowledge with intelligence, who forget that it is merely a machine; a fast computer with access to mountains of data, yet is no smarter (nor can understand morality) than a rock and can be shut down by simply flipping a switch or yanking a cable, those people are the danger to mankind. For, should some brand of AI spit-out that humans must be destroyed it will be quite unable to do so. But the true believers, the “inferior slaves to their AI/robot masters”, will be the foot soldiers who take up arms against their fellow man at the behest of their chip-and-diode god. That is the REAL danger of AI.

Here’s a fun game: ask Grok3 how to clear a paper-jam from a laser printer. Now lay a tool kit on your computer and ask Grok3 to please go ahead and do it.