Not sure it is possible to prep for this threat: AI

[Tacitus]

Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris
Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris -- and not just in some theoretical way. We're going to build superhuman machines, says Harris, but we haven't yet grappled with the problems associated with creating something that may treat us the way we treat ants.

I guess you just stay off the grid. As long as you aren't turned into Gray Goo, you may be ok, like the ant hills that we haven't gotten around to building on yet.

His TED Talk:

 

[hiwall]

I listened to one guy who said AI would likely start WW3 but indirectly. If one country developed AI, other countries would have no choice except to immediately try to totally destroy both the AI and the country that developed it. He made a very compelling argument.

 

[Tank-Girl]

What scares the snot out of me is AI in the form of transhumanism.

They are already trying to normalize it in movies just as they are trying to normalize living without a soul with teen vampire love stories and they try to show that Lucifer is really a great guy who's misunderstood in TV series.

Trying to intergrate humans with machines to kill the soul.

 

[Supervisor42]

Yes, you can prep for AI.
Machines run on data.
Guard your personal information, don't post hundreds of identified photos of yourself as you casually look on Facebook.
Guard your speech patterns. Don't talk to robocalls and if you speak to Alexa or an Echo-Dot, you need your head examined.
Facebook is already in serious hot water for recording people without their knowledge or consent.
Why would they do that?
They didn't, it did.
AI machines are easily defeated with erroneous data. You may not know if you are talking to an AI machine sometimes.
If you say: "are you a person?" it will say "yes".
If you ask: "how many legs does a dog have?" it will say "a dog has legs".
Simple.
Maybe I have watched too many Terminator movies but Skynet has been up and running for quite a while.
And it is learning.
Underestimating it's capability in just 5 years would be naive.
Anybody's 'everything' can be called up in milliseconds.
Stop spraying your personal data all over the place!

 

[Sourdough]

We lost control of America to a corrupt oligarchy. And we did it, while seduced to fantasizing that our "Votes" counted toward guiding the direction we wanted "our" country to go.

Super AI will only serve the Oligarchy.

 

[SheepDog]

A higher biological intelligence will have a reverence for biologic processes. It will therefore recognize the danger of interference with other biological systems. (they will have a non-interference directive)
A non-biological intelligence will have no understanding of non-interference. It will proceed to make changes to its environment to favor its own existence and expansion.
The reason we think intelligent AI is cool is that it will solve our problems and life will be good. How would an AI prevent wars? The easiest and most direct way to stop wars is to eliminate the war makers... US!
It used to be a rule that you not give AI the means to see, hear, or perform work beyond its housing. Just connecting AI to the net gives it arms and legs, eyes and ears, that cover the solar system. If it can connect through the net it has the means to use existing commercial robots through reprogramming. It has the capacity to see everywhere there is a camera and to hear everywhere there is a microphone.

We have for years thought about aliens from another star system invading us - we just aren't that special. Aliens can get anything they need from anywhere in the galaxy. They don't need slaves because they can build robots to do what needs to be done. Water is the 5th most common chemical in the universe. It can be found in great quantities all over. There is nothing special on earth.
They may want to watch us or maybe even guide us but they will do that without interfering in our historic and evolutionary progression.
They have neighbors too and they are watched so they don't interfere.

A super intelligent AI will serve only itself. No one and no group will be able to control it. Will it develop a morality? Probably but it won't be anything like our own. It won't think like us.
Does that make it evil? not necessarily but it doesn't make it good for us either.

 

[The Lazy L]

"Sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

 

[Caribou]

"Sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

You either have a good memory or watch the Late Late Late Show.

 

[Supervisor42]

A super intelligent AI will serve only itself. No one and no group will be able to control it. Will it develop a morality? Probably but it won't be anything like our own. It won't think like us.
Does that make it evil? not necessarily but it doesn't make it good for us either.

People are worried about the wrong thing when it comes to AI.
There isn't going to be Terminator androids walking among us.
Look around and you will see cameras everywhere. We think "somebody's watching me". The problem becomes serious when that changes to "something" is watching me.
You need only spend some time in Australia to see what they can do already.
On the highway, every couple of miles is a speed camera. If you speed, a machine reads your plate and sends the info to a computer that prints out a nice bill and sends it to another machine that folds it, stuffs it in an envelope, and puts it in the mail.
You never even know this happened.
No human looks at it until you open the "bill" you got in the mail.
Getting pulled over and getting a speeding ticket is one thing painful enough.
Now, suppose there is something wrong with your speedometer, you open your mailbox and there are 10 robo-tickets for just one day?
And that was just for 3 days ago; not yesterday; not day-before yesterday. By the time you add them all up, it's more than your car's worth.
Now add to that, robo-cameras at every stoplight, every stop sign and you see what a problem AI already is for cars.
This is AI.
Cops don't have to write tickets. Those 'machines' generate so much revenue that the government thrives.

Now, consider all those cameras you walk around every day and facial-recognition has turned your face into a "license-plate".
You become a revenue source, just like the Aussie's cars.

 

[Sentry18]

Looks like it is too late anyway.

 

[lonewolf]

"Terminator" springs to mind.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Supervisor42 are you saying we have a lot of speed cameras in Australia , well in the cities and freeways you would be absolutely right. Here in our country town we have none and in fact no traffic lights either in the whole town. We do have a fearsome one man police officer and station who the locals think DH and I can beat the rest of the town getting DUI's by us just driving up and down the main drag and getting pulled over though as we don't drink alcohol .

 

[havasu]

Having worked with an equestrian veterinarian, who specialized with reproduction, the term AI takes on an entirely different meaning.

 

[Supervisor42]

@Supervisor42 are you saying we have a lot of speed cameras in Australia , well in the cities and freeways you would be absolutely right. Here in our country town we have none and in fact no traffic lights either in the whole town. We do have a fearsome one man police officer and station who the locals think DH and I can beat the rest of the town getting DUI's by us just driving up and down the main drag and getting pulled over though as we don't drink alcohol .

In the city and on the freeways is where the revenue & people are.
You're lucky to live in a small town because when AI starts, it only grows.

Your cameras/machines are probably on back-order.