Will AI kill us all?

[yankii]

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but we all know that mass-robotization is coming and soon AI will have a physical presence in our lives. Do you think it'll hate us, for what we are and for what we've made it into?

 

[The Catboy]

If AI doesn't it's props gonna be The Catboy

 

[yankii]

If AI doesn't it's props gonna be The Catboy

You'll never find me

 

[PrettyENA]

I would be more worried about the resource expenditure in a world in which the more harsher consequences of climate change are closer and closer tbh

 

[MPRTwice]

I broke "Google Gemini" in an argument in a matter of minutes; teaching is far beyond what AI can handle; it's dynamic.

One plus one equals the student saying he will kill me, he has no idea, asking me way I am asking the obvious, two, etc. depending on their mood. AI cannot handle that professionally, so it loses to me easily.

 

[chrisrlink]

if AI doesn't pull a terminator hijacks the world's nuclear arsenal and vaporizes us pretty sure one of two people are crazy enough to do it them selves

 

[MPRTwice]

if AI doesn't pull a terminator hijacks the world's nuclear arsenal and vaporizes us pretty sure one of two people are crazy enough to do it them selves

I'm aware the fallen world will end. I will simply live to see the day it falls and I am more alive than ever forever onwards. There is no stopping it, but the sooner it happens, the sooner I can say Goodbye to the devil forever; he is mortal; I'm not.

 

[tech3475]

Forget Skynet, I won't be surprised if AI kills us through our own stupidity of blindly trusting it.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025...alt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/

 

[MPRTwice]

Forget Skynet, I won't be surprised if AI kills us through our own stupidity of blindly trusting it.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025...alt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/

If at least from a technical standpoint, what is your view of the Book of Revelation? For instance, in regards to the burning star called Wormwood that causes many to die? Do you think that is referring to a giant bomb, or perhaps something else? There were obviously no bombs deployed from jets when that was written, so I'm curious if Wormwood is a bomb since the description is detailed and written by a man around two thousand years ago. Please note that it falls from heaven, but there are three heavens, the clouds being the first, thus it could come from the sky and not necessarily from the third heaven, which fits the description.

 

[RopeShooter9000]

AI is a tool. Not a replacement, an art stealer OR the devil.

 

[CMDreamer]

You see too much TV lately.

"Homo homini lupus" resumes what most recent events on human society have shown globally, in political, military, economical and social terms.

I'd "fear" more about who's walking beside me, sitting by my side on a public transport, driving beside my car, or shopping in the same store, than what AI can do.

And if that even happens it would be humans fault completely.

I could name lots of recent events examples on a "certain country" in the same continent I live in, but that might become a not very popular opinion and turn this AI discussion into a completely diferent thing.

 

[MPRTwice]

AI is a tool. Not a replacement, an art stealer OR the devil.

The AI itself is not the devil; I agree on that. However, I do not trust it, even as one who programs robots; even looking at the exact code in C++ and compiling it, there is something untrustworthy in the AI itself.

Kind of like the Olympics: I know the mechanics having defeated gold medalists many times, but that is not the sinister part of it. It is moreso the behaviors in there, like a cult trying to get money out of people by holding them back and keeping them coming in to pay for it; I've been told this directly by the lead Coach who was my former partner before he valued deception to keep them coming back for more.

 

[Uiaad]

Burger King once tried to replace a restaurant with robots. It didn't even last 4 hours before they had to switch back to human workers. We have nothing to fear for many years to come ... anyway, what you are referring to as "AI" are just LLMs, and there is a world of difference between LLMs and true AI

 

[RopeShooter9000]

The AI itself is not the devil; I agree on that. However, I do not trust it, even as one who programs robots; even looking at the exact code in C++ and compiling it, there is something untrustworthy in the AI itself.

Valid argument.

 

[slaphappygamer]

If you trust AI, yes, it might kill you. AI will definitely suffocate some websites. There is one, in particular, now that had been disabled for almost 2 days. But that is due to bots hammering their severs and choking traffic. AI will be worse. Especially if AI attracts AI as botnets do. AI can help you find information. It’s up to YOU to not blindly follow. Gather at least 2 other sources to confirm. Then make YOUR own decision.

 

[Axido]

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but we all know that mass-robotization is coming and soon AI will have a physical presence in our lives. Do you think it'll hate us, for what we are and for what we've made it into?

Machine learning is so limited in its abilities that it does not create its own consciousness. In Layman's terms it is a pattern matching algorithm making heavy use of statistics tables it creates when learning from training material that is vastly different than the books we read.

It does not learn concepts, it just learns from lots and lots of examples. That's still very far from human-level intelligence. Please don't give in to the thought that just because it can type plausibly structured sentences it must be intelligent.

However, if a machine learning model was fed with the entirety of Twitter without proper supervision and correction then its behaviour would most probably reflect that of a total psychopath, just because that's what the majority of content it read suggested.

That on its own would not be a problem as long as it doesn't get the means to kill humans, like... I dunno... the steering wheel of a car. Self-driving cars are a pretty good example, actually. They never learnt to despise humans. All they ever learnt was to drive a vehicle from point A to point B. And to be honest, they are still comparatively bad at that despite the time they spent learning.

That being said I would rather believe that if an AI ever manages to kill the entire human species, it would do so by accident (probably, because some country with nukes would be stupid enough to give an AI enough permissions to launch those nukes). And it would even be too dumb to realize it.

 

[The_Dizzy_Vizzy]

You AI cats should watch a film called "Colossus - The Forbin Project". It's TOTALLY about AI. The ending will surely fuck with your head, and it's NOT the apocalypse you think it'd be (well, not really).

Very good film and worth every minute of your time. Look it up!

 

[sexually_inactive]

But before AI kills us there will be a free dick rating AI machine.

 

[Veho]

You AI cats should watch a film called "Colossus - The Forbin Project". It's TOTALLY about AI. The ending will surely fuck with your head, and it's NOT the apocalypse you think it'd be (well, not really).

Very good film and worth every minute of your time. Look it up!


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Another similar take on this is Jack Williamson's "The Humanoids". Guy creates a bunch of intelligent robots to serve and protect humans, and boy does it backfire.

 

[hippy dave]