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by trashtester 604 days ago
> if we have such incredibly sufficient machines at our disposal

That's true. But it's far from clear that these machines will be "at our disposal" for very long.

> Also scary, is military robots gone rogue.

I'm not concerned with military robots going rogue on their own. My concern is if the fully autonomous factories that have the capability to MAKE military robots (and then control them) go rogue.

A factory can exist in such a "rogue" state, unknown to the owners and maybe even itself, for year or decades before it even starts producing such robots. Meanwhile, it can evolve new capabilities and switch product categories multiple times.

It doesn't even have to have any negative intentions against humanity. It may simply detect that a rival AI "factory" entity is developing plans to wage physical war against it and join it in an arms race.

In this ASI vs ASI type of world war, human lives may be like candles in the wind.