What's the worst invention of the 21st century?

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 82 points –
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My favorite episode of X-Files predicted it at a lesser scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)

Having an internet connection, a proper AI can easily order contractors around and reproduce, secure and empower itself.

Godbless the hype is about stupid t9 on steroids, but we don't really have any safeguards against what we assume is a proper autonomous AI.

Having an internet connection, a proper AI can easily order contractors around and reproduce, secure and empower itself.

I mean, that's the standard idea guys like Yudkowsky talk about. Having poked around a bit, it seems a couple decades of petty hackers have made that pretty impossible to do without either leaving a meatspace paper trail, or having meatspace human accomplices. Conquering the world instantly by Wifi, unless you can break encryption, is probably overblown - for now.

Otherwise, I just agree.