"It's so 'intense and scary' we shouldn't release it. And we shouldn't do anything to counteract climate crisis so that people don't become alarmed. The best way to reassure everyone is to approve more coal and gas extraction, and dig deeper holes in the sand for our heads"
It's interesting that I listened to some podcasts recently, and the general idea was that the FIRST to get an AGI could never be caught. The slope on the improvement in smarts curve will just be too steep.
All other AGIs will be like a cute puppy in comparison. And humans, well, we might be like a microbe....
I was doing some random 'writer prompt' thinking about this today, while thinking about the current/future car industry.
If most of our cars have self drive technology, and they can identify people/pedestrians, then in a state of war, couldn't the programming be changed to target them instead of miss them?
And for electric cars, couldn't an enemy state alter the battery management system to cause a runaway thermal battery fire? Imagine every electric car co-ordinated to all catch on fire at the one time. That could make an interesting story.
Just to be clear, I don't think this would happen, or even know of it's actually possible.
It just made me think, well, I couldn't prevent this by buying an Australian car. Which made me sad and miss the old Aussie built cars.
Can't wait for us to change supplying country 3 or 4 times, paying massive contract breaking penalties each time, for us to pay more for a worse performing ship that arrives hugely over budget and 15 years too late.
"It's so 'intense and scary' we shouldn't release it. And we shouldn't do anything to counteract climate crisis so that people don't become alarmed. The best way to reassure everyone is to approve more coal and gas extraction, and dig deeper holes in the sand for our heads"
/s