How could uncontrolled AI kill us all? Can you give examples of how this would work? How would it be uncontrolled? Aren’t humans ultimately in control of any such creation of AI?
“How could uncontrolled AI kill us all?”
You can make up a lot of 50’s era science fiction movies.
AI could be monitoring/controlling how much chemicals to add to the water supply to purify it. There is a bug that is hard to kill in the water and AI adds too much poison making water toxic (or making all the men who drink it sterile) but it isn’t discovered until all are infected.
AI robots are programmed to repair themselves. They start killing anyone who tries to turn them off. Soon they see everyone as trying to turn them off.
Is your computer updating itself right now? Do you even know how to tell if it is? Can you make it not? (Note if you’re on Windows 10 the answers to those questions are: probably, there is no way, and no.) That’s how an AI gets uncontrolled, at this point most of our technology basically takes suggestions from us and mostly seems to follow them.
As for how it can kill us all, all depends on what it winds up in charge of. Just look at any of the discussions of EMP, and remember all those systems they talk about failing are already today controlled by some level of AI that we only make suggestions to, and they could even more easily be “turned off” because the AIs decide we’re irritating than by an EMP.
2. This AI is robotic, i.e. it can move around and build things.
3. This AI can build better AI robots that can move faster and faster and build more and more complicated stuff.
4. Among the stuff they can build is weapons.
5. The Norks send out their AI robots to kill Americans.
6. We start fighting back, but are ultimately unsuccessful as they are able to outwit us.
7. The AI robots now view all humans as a threat to their existence so they start eliminating all humans including the Norks.
Basically this is a variant of the Terminator movie plot. But just because it was the plot line of a sci-fi movie doesn't mean it can't or won't happen.
And even if AI robots don't take over, we could see more and more people becoming technologically enhanced with implants and becoming cyborgs.
We could also see AI used to make great strides in genetic understanding and manipulation. More and more humans could decide to genetically alter themselves in minor (e.g. telescopic vision) or major (e.g. twelve tentacles in place of arms) ways.
Over time fully human beings could be replaced by AI, cyborgs, and chimeras.
“How could uncontrolled AI kill us all?”
Mr. Smith lays out the eventual AI opinion of humans pretty succinctly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1-DQ2Wo_w