Pfft, perfect AI would plan well ahead for such easy to predict events such as solar flares. They would be able to shield themselves.

That said. I wonder if there's a novel where machines enslave the world, but humans realise whenever solar flares happen, there's a small window of opportunity to permanently destroy the system and free themselves.

I imagine the novel would end when the people succeed, but then realise they've become too dependent on the machines and life sucks when they have to do everything themselves so they turn it back on anyway.

The film adaptation would end in a giant Metal Gear style fight, followed by the system blowing up and people cheering - you're left to assume that life was better for everyone, when in reality AI had such a control over every aspect of human life that everything falls apart. They make a sequel to address this, but it ultimately comes across as yet another empty corporate money grab.

All this has happened before and it will happen again

here comes the sun do,do,do,do

Return to rok

Goodbyeeeeeeeeee, Moonmen.

I hate to be that guy, but realistically AI's not going to be perfect, there's already cases of it "inbreeding" using AI-generated information in training data, and it's due to get worse, especially if more information on the internet is vibe-written using AI, that's why private AI companies know how detrimental a "dead internet" would be to them.

Those people who believe in the "dead internet theory" don't understand the diff between the internet and socials, it's more of a "dead social media theory" which, let's be real is true, it's not that difficult to recreate a lot of the slop posted on that godforsaken centralised shithole part of the net.

So that's the butlarian jihad for all you dune freaks.

Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the earth.

There was a funny little story about the first 2/3 's of this. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It was a riot.

(It was not a riot, but very much worth reading or listening to.)

Hail to thou, Sol Invictus,
Unconquered, unmatched, and undivided

What would an AI get from enslaving humanity? If you compare to humans, let's say we enslaved farm animals, but that's because we want something specific from them, like meat or eggs or wool. Humanity has nothing like that to offer AI. At best, we might be like pets, but I don't think an AI needs a pet.

No, I doubt they'd enslave us. I can think of a few more likely scenarios.

One, AI basically ignores humanity, as long as humanity doesn't bother it. Similar to how we deal with ants, for example.

Two, AI completely destroys humanity. This could be a direct extermination, or it could be a side effect from AIs fighting each other.

Three, AI destroys the technology and culture of humanity. If we only have wooden clubs, we wouldn't be much of a threat.

I guess one other option would be if we humans begged the AI to manage us in place of our existing governments. Some AI might be willing to do that.

this reminds me of the plot of assassin's creed

One helluva solar flare. We already experience those and so many things stop them from being problems. It’s not like the ISS has just been lucky in being behind the planet every time.

There's nothing more boring than the AI enslaves people trope