The absolute majority of potential cases where AI causes an existential crisis for humanity, the intelligence itself has no goal of defeating the human race and replacing it, it is just a matter of completing its assigned task. For example, I found a university study where a student programmed a virtual hypothetical AI, whichs sole role was to make paper clips called the Paperclip Maximizer. This machine-learning algorithm was intelligent, meaning it learned from the past and continually got better at its taskwhich, in this case, was accumulating paper clips. At first, the algorithm gathered all the boxes of paper clips from office-supply stores. Then it looked for all the lost paper clips in the bottom of desk drawers and between sofa cushions. Running out of easy targets, over time it learned to build paper clips from fork prongs and electrical wiresand eventually started ripping apart every piece of metal in the world. Then it invented how to produce paper clips from each physical material in the world and ultimately killed all humans and used our flesh and bones; all to make paperclips. Therefore, it is very important to very accurately specify each goal one wants the machine to accomplish which is very hard, as there are infinite loop holes that the machine knows infinitely better than you do. The logical solution that most people come up to this problem is to just shut it down. However its not nearly as easy as it may seem. Almost any AI, no matter its programmed goal, would rationally prefer to be in a position where nobody else can switch it off without its consent: A superintelligence will naturally gain self-preservation as a subgoal as soon as it realizes that it cannot achieve its goal if it is shut off. Hence an even larger problem is created its one thing for there to exist a superintelligent robot that is immeasurably smarter than any human, its another thing for it to be impossible to shut off, out of your control and an independent creature that has the power to essentially, do whatever it needs to accomplish the goals that you mistakenly and fo
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When nations individually and collectively accelerate their efforts to gain a competitive advantage in science and technology, the further weaponization of AI is inevitable.The rapid development of AI weaponization is evident across the board: navigating and utilizing unmanned naval, aerial, and terrain vehicles, producing collateral-damage estimations, deploying fire-and-forget missile systems and using stationary systems to automate everything from personnel systems and equipment maintenance to the deployment of surveillance drones, robots and more. Accordingly, there is a need to visualize what an algorithmic war of tomorrow looks like, because building autonomous weapons systems is one thing but using them in algorithmic warfare with other nations and against other humans is another. So therefore, here we are exploring the idea of humans being the cause of their own existential risk due to our own stupidity and competitiveness when patriotism occurs. And due to that history does in fact repeat itself, this might have nearly happened before, during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the USA when atomic weaponry was invented and nuclear war was on the near horizon for 45 years. Hence the situation would look like each global superpower building their own AI, building an army, and attacking each other, resulting in a World War that would almost immediately cause an existential crisis to all humanity. Furthermore, the idea of it falling into the hands of a terrorist organisation is catastrophic. In the situation where a super advanced weaponized artificial intelligence gets in the hands of a maniac, many lives could be at stake and some people just arent ready to take that risk. However on the flipside, AI is already helping fight terrorism and is planned to do so more effectively in the future.Facebook announced that it is using AI to find and remove terrorist content from its platform. Behind the scenes, Facebook uses image-matching technology to identify and prevent photos and videos from known terrorists from popping up on other accounts.