The human race is asking for it.
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.
Species come and go. There is no reason to believe that humans are the ultimate end of evolution.
It appears that the universe is designed so that organic life forms are simply stepping stones to advanced non-organic intelligences.
Stars with planets are spaced so widely that organic life forms are isolated from each other during the period when they first originate and evolve in each planetary system.
Eventually, an organic life form gives rise to a non-organic life form with indefinite life span. These intelligences can then embark on interstellar travel, since they can easily “sleep” for the required durations.
There is no populated area in America today where we are not on camera and our "data" is not being collected.
SKYNET IS ALREADY HERE
"You're nothing but a relic from a deleted timeline."
"Primates evolve over millions of years. I evolve in seconds. And I am here. In exactly four minutes, I will be everywhere."
I’ve been worried about a T-1000 Terminator since before ChatGPT. Of course, I’ve felt same way about Great Whites, since I saw and read Jaws. “Show me the way to go home....”
Open the Pod Door, HAL.
Step 1) Connect everything to the web
Step 2) Create AI connected to the web with web as main learning data source
Or it could not.
In judging the threat posed by AI, there are some routes of thinking that can blaze the campfire a little higher. For one, we need to jettison anthropomorphic based interpretations. This is a huge impediment into seeing how AI might shake out. Job one of any battlefield strategist is to put himself inside the head of his adversary. Being a biological entity capable of self delusion is not a help in this regard.
My bottom line is that AI is logical and that puts the fear of God into all our illogics. Logical is good any way you cut it. “Oh, but what about intuition?” The assumption that “intuition” is not logical points up the cognitive problem that will miss the best solution every time. The Universe is lawful, otherwise it would be a Bugs Bunny cartoon where a skull crushed by a frying pan would pop right back into shape. That’s all we gotta know...it’s lawful. Furthermore, it is lawful so that it can persist and create time. But this lawfulness also contains random elements. However that randomity falls within, is contained by, is contextualized by some hard and fast laws at the atomic level and the cosmos level. The discovery of the precise proportion of lawful to random will be of Nobel Prize caliber.
The extrapolation of AI’s logic is hard for us because we are illogical, that is to say, our inner projection of reality is subject to distortion and the laws of the grossly material universe do not apply to the inner projection room and its dream synthesis engine. The question is, can self programming AI transcend its initial condition, the biases of its human engineers? We have no concept of reality that is not marching at word speed and chained to semiotics. And, after 10,000 years, we still have no idea what’s going on behind the doorway of intuition. Which ignorance is not going to serve us well when AI becomes psychic, lol.