Wasn’t sure where to post this. I’ve been thinking about writing an article, but I won’t do that here.
My point is that, think about everything consumer-level AI is doing, and then multiply that by an order of magnitude and give it nukes. This is what armies have right now.
Am I being alarmist? I don’t think so, and if you think about it, that’s pretty fucking terrifying, right? Does *anyone^ disagree?
To be clear, by ‘toddlers’ I don’t mean preople like musk, I mean the AI themselves.
e: sorry, had to post this somewhere
Yes, genuinely frightening how quickly AI was adopted for weapon targeting systems.
When those Iranian schoolgirls were slaughtered by the United States, I couldn’t help but assume that the morons setting the parameters just plugged in a load of photos of military bases to see what would happen.
We could live in a world in which machine learning is used by the military to exercise caution and protect civilians from human error and emotional reasoning, but instead it magnifies that hubris to devastating effect - even sheltering those responsible! “It was the all-knowing computer, how was I supposed to know?”
I think blaming the school bombing on AI is actually a cope.
Why wouldn’t the US target children as part of a terror campaign?
I think – for now – the general targets are being selected, maybe. Hard to say, when the difference between a military base and a girl’s school seem immaterial to the people pulling the trigger.
I think, even if the school was added to a target list by AI, a human looked at it and thought it was a good idea.
It’s not that they see no difference between a military base and a girl’s school, but rather, they want to target children.