Someone posted a short story along these lines to the EA Forum or maybe LessWrong a few months ago. I can’t find it—does anyone remember the link?
From memory: a programmer pressed enter and let things run over night… the AI reached some threshhold, then quickly hacked its way onto the internet and computers around the world, then started getting up to no good...
Someone posted a short story along these lines to the EA Forum or maybe LessWrong a few months ago. I can’t find it—does anyone remember the link?
From memory: a programmer pressed enter and let things run over night… the AI reached some threshhold, then quickly hacked its way onto the internet and computers around the world, then started getting up to no good...
I think you’re referring to “It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World” by Gwern: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a5e9arCnbDac9Doig/it-looks-like-you-re-trying-to-take-over-the-world
Note that in context of OP’s original question, this story demonstrates that discussion of realistic depiction may increase chances of risk!
Gwern elaborates on this idea here .
That’s it, thank you!