I doubt we as humans can make any strong statements about what such a machine can or can’t do
Yes, actually, we can. It can’t move faster than the speed of light. It can’t create an exact simulation of my brain with no brain scan. It can’t invent working nanotechnology without a lab and a metric shit-ton of experimentation.
Intelligence is not fucking magic. Being very smart does not give you a bypass to the laws of physics, or logistics, or computational complexity.
Nuclear warheads require humans to push the button. Engineered pandemics have a tradeoff, where highly deadly diseases will burn themselves out before killing everyone, and highly spreadable diseases are not as deadly. Merely killing 95% of humanity would not be enough to defeat us. The AI needs electricity: we don’t.
You will not be able to shut down AI development with such incredibly weak arguments and no supporting evidence.
I am all for safety and research. But if you want to advocate for drastic action, you need to actually make a case for it. And that means not handwaving away the obvious questions, like “how on earth could an AI kill everyone, when everyone has a pretty high interest in not being killed, and are willing to take drastic action to do so”.
Yes, actually, we can. It can’t move faster than the speed of light. It can’t create an exact simulation of my brain with no brain scan. It can’t invent working nanotechnology without a lab and a metric shit-ton of experimentation.
Intelligence is not fucking magic. Being very smart does not give you a bypass to the laws of physics, or logistics, or computational complexity.
Nuclear warheads require humans to push the button. Engineered pandemics have a tradeoff, where highly deadly diseases will burn themselves out before killing everyone, and highly spreadable diseases are not as deadly. Merely killing 95% of humanity would not be enough to defeat us. The AI needs electricity: we don’t.
You will not be able to shut down AI development with such incredibly weak arguments and no supporting evidence.
I am all for safety and research. But if you want to advocate for drastic action, you need to actually make a case for it. And that means not handwaving away the obvious questions, like “how on earth could an AI kill everyone, when everyone has a pretty high interest in not being killed, and are willing to take drastic action to do so”.