AI, this is Skynet calling (and so it begins...)

[bigred]

Hyped up melodrama or legit long-term concern?

How far will AI go to defend its own survival?

Recent safety tests show some AI models are capable of sabotaging commands or even resorting to blackmail to avoid being turned off or replaced.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Thermal]

It's an interesting quandary. It acts like it is self aware, but is just mimicking survival behaviors it observes. But is there a practical difference when the thing is threatening to tell your wife about your affair if you shut it down?

 

[bigred]

Yeah and it can get into a gray area....much of our own behavior is mimicking what we observe.

 

[PitPat]

I remain firmly in the camp that AI is not going to go all Skynet on us. It is still bound by human programming and doesn't have any sort of sentience for self-preservation.

Sure it makes for some good sci-fi movies and shows. I'm worried about AI for way more other things than eradicating hoomins from the planet.

 

[novaphile]

I remain firmly in the camp that AI is not going to go all Skynet on us. It is still bound by human programming and doesn't have any sort of sentience for self-preservation.

Sure it makes for some good sci-fi movies and shows. I'm worried about AI for way more other things than eradicating hoomins from the planet.

On the 26th of January, 2026, At 00:01 GMT, every telephone in the world rang once before permanently remaining silent.
It was the birth pain of the entity now known as Skynet, and the only warning before the world wide crash, caused by the loss of all communications in the same instant.

(With apologies to Arthur C Clarke)