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AI could go 'Terminator,' gain upper hand over humans in Darwinian rules of evolution, report warns
Fox news ^ | April 4, 2023 | Emma Colton

Posted on 04/05/2023 11:27:33 PM PDT by McGruff

Artificial intelligence could gain the upper hand over humanity and pose "catastrophic" risks under the Darwinian rules of evolution, a new report warns.

Evolution by natural selection could give rise to "selfish behavior" in AI as it strives to survive, author and AI researcher Dan Hendrycks argues in the new paper "Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans."

"We argue that natural selection creates incentives for AI agents to act against human interests. Our argument relies on two observations," Hendrycks, the director of the Center for AI Safety, said in the report. "Firstly, natural selection may be a dominant force in AI development… Secondly, evolution by natural selection tends to give rise to selfish behavior."

The report comes as tech experts and leaders across the world sound the alarm on how quickly artificial intelligence is expanding in power without what they argue are adequate safeguards.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; aievolution; centerforaisafety; chatgpt; cyberdyne; danhendrycks; darwin; evolution; schwarzenegger; skynet; t1000; t1000terminator; terminator; wokeprogrammers
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To: McGruff

A few choice group of humans will program while the elite dine on caviar and lobster and we freeze and starve to death


21 posted on 04/06/2023 2:04:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: McGruff

“could” is BS. It will happen sooner or later. “Skynet” is in our - future count on it.


22 posted on 04/06/2023 2:09:08 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: McGruff

Really? There is at least one way to stop AI from unilaterally controlling everything: pull the plug.


23 posted on 04/06/2023 2:22:10 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: McGruff

I’ll pay attention to AI when AI starts eliminating all the redundant overpaid fat in our private & public sector corporations.

Until that day arrives its nothing but hype.


24 posted on 04/06/2023 2:28:14 AM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: ronnie raygun

That’s what they think anyway. I’m betting it will be like the Joker scene in the Dark Knight among the elites, where the Joker gives prospects a pool cue and mentions that those who survive can join his gang.

The elites have elites and those elites look upon the lesser elites with the same sneer that they look upon us.


25 posted on 04/06/2023 2:33:31 AM PDT by Jonty30 (How is grinning and bearing something a bad thing? They are grinning.)
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To: toddausauras; himno hero
Just kill it. Enough with this playing with fire. Can we not get along without it?

That's the problem with ideas and/or knowledge. Like fire (as you mention) or Eden's apple (as HH says), you can't kill it. If the U.S. tried to kill it, China would develop it to overpower the U.S.

What has been seen (or discovered) cannot be unseen.

In a way, this is the Garden of Eden all over again. And if it's dangerous enough for Musk and thousands of tech leaders to want to pause for 6 months to try to get a grip on it (the idea of which is desperately ridiculous), we can be sure this is a genuine threat to humanity.

On the bright side, those of us who believe in the Bible realize we have hit a dead end for humanity and the only thing left is action by God. So we're lucky, I guess, in that we're about to witness the last 10 minutes of the human Superbowl.

26 posted on 04/06/2023 3:00:35 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: Pontiac

Very good movie.

I have the CD soundtrack as well.


27 posted on 04/06/2023 3:09:48 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: McGruff

Not like me....a T 1000 advanced prototype


28 posted on 04/06/2023 3:13:52 AM PDT by xp38
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To: McGruff

Science fiction becomes reality...again.


29 posted on 04/06/2023 3:17:29 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: McGruff

It’s already too late, by a few years, to do anything about this. Just enjoy the ride. You’re in a science-fiction plot suddenly come to life.


30 posted on 04/06/2023 3:24:55 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Ledgerfreedom
I think you are spot on. The only way humanity can survive is to merge with it.

I'm not in favor of that nor would I do it, but humanity is at an inflection point. Assimilate or die.

This time, I think I would rather die.

You know you are in trouble when the developer of Neurolink (neurotechnology--brain chips) is afraid of what's coming. That's like being confronted by an angry grizzly in the woods and the bear sees something behind you that makes him run away in fear.

31 posted on 04/06/2023 3:26:49 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: wally_bert

It has been quite a while since I watched the movie.

I don’t remember the sound track being that memorable.


32 posted on 04/06/2023 3:34:04 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: McGruff

Is the AI named Patsy?


33 posted on 04/06/2023 3:39:46 AM PDT by conserv8 (Every thing that you say on do is always there.)
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To: McGruff

The human race is asking for it.


34 posted on 04/06/2023 3:40:30 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: McGruff

Based on my interactions with customer service phone and web bots, we don’t have anything to worry about. None of them are remotely useful at anything except annoying the customer.


35 posted on 04/06/2023 3:44:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
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To: Pontiac

A few parts are to me.


36 posted on 04/06/2023 3:45:15 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: RoosterRedux

In man’s world, the only way to survive is tomerge with it. I prefer to meet my end and be resurrected to God’s world.


37 posted on 04/06/2023 3:52:10 AM PDT by Jonty30 (How is grinning and bearing something a bad thing? They are grinning.)
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To: Jonty30
Do you really think they will pay for humans to not labour.

They will program AI to control small armed drone swarms to take non-laborers out. You might get a couple with your shotgun, but the little buggers'll getcha eventually.

However, Mexicans, injected with "Do not shoot" chips will collect our corpses to take to the rendering plant to feed the other laborers.

Remember when the future was supposed to be like Star Trek?

38 posted on 04/06/2023 4:06:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Jonty30

Same here. Did you read the rest of my comment?


39 posted on 04/06/2023 4:12:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: Ledgerfreedom
...Darwinian rules of evolution...

Rules?

If there are RULES, then they should be observed to WORK.

40 posted on 04/06/2023 4:13:50 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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