[hutzlibu]

With given access to more resources, it might try to permanently solve skin cancer.

[bee_rider]

“We don’t know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was them that scorched the sky. At the time, they were just trying to be helpful.”

[ojosilva]

This is the new Godwin's law: the longer a thread about AI grows, the higher the probability of a comparison to Skynet, Matrix, HAL etc popping up.

I would also like to add Wall-e to this memetic set of movies. In Wall-e, AI is an enabler of our own destructiveness, humans are enslaved by AI willfully, AI is empowered so that humans can graze away on nihilistic screens.

[lostdog]

Lecun's law: Every discussion about AI eventually results in someone catastrophizing about an evil AI taking over, despite having no argument for why an evil, omnipotent AI is likely to ever exist.

[bee_rider]

We trained the AI on samples of writing from the internet, which includes a lot of fiction, which includes a lot of evil AIs. So, I’m surprised it doesn’t start producing evil sounding text as soon as it “finds out” that it is an AI.

[bcrosby95]

We're just applying Murphy's Law.