The other day our friend CH noted BTL (and OT, but let's not worry about that):
... We can now create virtual Von Neumann machines comprising of those AIs, who can scale and network as well as reason around any guardrails, and so are clear to cheat their way to solutions without the sentience to weigh consequences as we would. Not they can't reason consequence, but is done as an exercise in cold logic. This is actually more dangerous than a SkyNet - it's swarms of savants looking to achieve aims without any moral or ethical boundaries, and with no higher scope of understanding. And given IT has been a lot of bodged jobs, minimal security, and all connected via a global network that itself can be hijacked at scale, we've quite the recipe for disaster ...
So let's have at it.
I have seen the AI escape likened to covid, and explicitly contrasted with climate change. The former was on everyone's radar for a few weeks, while we all wondered what would happen next ...
I haven't seen it likened to the financial crash of 2008. Here at C@W, we signposted that in 2007, so perhaps the run-up period is about right. But where is Gordon Brown to save the world now ..?
ND
