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Are we teaching AI to destroy humanity? (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago by coolmultitool to c/showerthoughts

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With all these massive amounts of articles about AI that's gonna destroy humanity, aren't we putting the idea out there for AI?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think it is even needed. An intelligent AI capable of killing humans would see all the gore and sadness on the internet and just decide to kill us all. An AI that lets itself be influenced by some internet article won't have the capabilities to end humanity.