I haven’t read the novel, so I can’t comment on that part but, as I commented above, “I can think of plenty of scenarios that are ‘realistic’ by AI safety standards… Scenarios that are inspired by stuff that terrorists do all the time when they’re fighting powerful governments, so lots of precedents in history, and whose realism only suffers a bit because they would not be technically possible for humans with today’s technology.”
I haven’t read the novel, so I can’t comment on that part but, as I commented above, “I can think of plenty of scenarios that are ‘realistic’ by AI safety standards… Scenarios that are inspired by stuff that terrorists do all the time when they’re fighting powerful governments, so lots of precedents in history, and whose realism only suffers a bit because they would not be technically possible for humans with today’s technology.”