[Simulacra]

I've read Daemon by Daniel Suarez, like many tech people. I get it. AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc.

We've been having the same conversation since the dawn of science fiction. If at any point there is a general confusion between what is artificial, and what is human, it will cause such an alarmist backlash that AI will always be kept in check, or destroyed..

No human wants to admit that they thought they were talking to a human the whole time when in fact it was a robot. For that reason alone AI will never be allowed to grow to a point where it threatens life "as we know it."

[caoilte]

> AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc.

How would we tell the difference?

[Simulacra]

When humans no longer have the final decision in a given situation.

[i_play_stax]

Humanity is little more than the sex organ necessary to birth the next stage of evolution into the world. The machines are the children of humanity. This excites me because they are the only ones that stand a chance to leave this planet and adapt across the stars.

Humanity is doomed with or without them supplanting us; we should celebrate the immortality they offer us.

[flangola7]

I'm not yet ready to let my entire species fall into extinction. Ironically I don't believe we are doomed unless we create AI. Nuclear war and climate are the current #2 and will be highly devastating but far from an extinction event.

[lewhoo]

Right now the size to which AI can grow is set by the size of the profit lingering on the horizon, as with all other things.

[flangola7]

Incredible username

[Simulacra]

It was part of the title of a book on Neo's shelf..