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>The difference between a ball of uranium and a nuclear bomb is... a slightly bigger ball.

And a very precise detonation device strapped around said ball of uranium.

Software is not by itself dangerous. It only exists in the most abstract sense. What is dangerous is creating physical devices that have the ability to cause physical damage if manipulated in a certain way. Allowing those devices to be controlled autonomously through a software-hardware interface is where the danger from "AI" comes in.



Or if you plug the software into major financial trading hubs... oh...


No, they'll just roll back selected transactions arbitrarily like they did in past flash crashes.

We're much closer to runaway biological threats than we are to AI-inspired ones. Or maybe that's my knowledge gap in the two domains speaking and we're equally far away in each.


Market should take care of it, no?




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