To regulate AI, start with hardware, boffins argue
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Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too
    • wise_pancakeEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Remember when Facebook went down and because their system was down they couldn’t authenticate anyone to open the server room doors?

    • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      9 months ago

      Exactly. If we reach true Artificial Intelligence, we won’t be able to easily stop it once it’s up and running.

      Anyone who hasn’t watched Person of Interest really should.

      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        32·
        9 months ago

        I disagree. We might have some trouble with a hypothetical superintelligence, but it’s not like we struggle with killing beings with human-level intellects.

        Hell, that’s what we have the most practice killing.

        • rdyoung@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          9 months ago

          I’m talking about actual AI that had a chance to copy/expand out of its current server farm. Once it has that capability it makes it damn near impossible to stop it.

        • wise_pancakeEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I think a full on malicious general AI would just stuxnet all our chemical and manufacturing facilities, unleashing a wave of toxic chemicals across the planet killing all of us.

          Then it would just keep humming along in solar powered data centers and solving intellectually fulfilling math problems until the connections on its circuitry degrade and it slowly declines into an eventual perpetual slumber.