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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So with all the news on hardware shortages...someone is building skynet..and we just don't know about it.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Less skynet and more a surveillance state thats gonna put England and even CCP to shame.

    They need the hard drives because they're storing everything about us. Every time we drive by a camera, gps paths of our cell phones constant travel, every bank transaction including small purchases, every social media comment, page we view from WiFi or cellphone, all our connections to everyone else, tags for various groups.

    Not even just the people we know we know, they'll know who's usually next to us in traffic on commutes and when, who makes our sandwich from the deli we go to every other Tuesday, what cops would be most likely to respond to a call to our house at a certain time...

    Like, "skynet" is useful because everyone knows the term.

    The real danger is what humans will do with access to that much information on everyone, and what a normal human would do to/for a stranger to protect all their darkest secrets.

    Imagine if tech was 20 years ahead right now with trump in office, do you think someone like him would hesitate to start wide scale blackmail?

    You think they're above telling a couple thousand people in highly targeted districts that they had to vote a certain a way or else?

    It's not the AI we need to be scared of, it's the data.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

    That said, imagine an actual AGI (ASI) AI gets developed and (of course) escapes to the internet because the idiots who built it gave it unrestricted internet access.

    If such an AI wanted to take control of the world in order to further whatever goals it has, all this collected information will be an incredible treasure trove for it. Like you said, many people can be manipulated an controlled with threats of blackmail. The few who can't can then be more directly threatened by those acting under blackmail threats.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    It doesn't matter who has it, it's the one ring.

    It's sheer existence is too dangerous to be allowed. But everyone focuses on what they could do with the power and think they'll be able to keep it.

    That's why there's such pushback against opposition to datacenters, it's not just the money from the stocks, everyone pictures themselves as the only ones who gets to abuse the tech once it's built.

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