How would we know if it wasn't programmed to destroy civilization?
Intentionally by humans and human corporations?
Well that’s pretty far out … paranoid thinking. The corporations who are selling this AI stuff want to make money, and the corporate and private purchasers who are buying it want to use or enjoy it. That’s going to be difficult if civilization itself is destroyed!
Maybe you need to give this more thought …
Now I’m not saying that the
unintentional — or even some of the
inevitable — results of mankind becoming more dependent on AI might not prove destructive or ultimately even devastating, but that is still very much an unproven hypothesis.
I do agree, if this is what you are fearful of, that all of us — private individuals, civic society as well as government bodies — will have to be alert to notice and stop dangerous manipulation or sabotage in AI programming, just as we should be now in other areas.
For better or worse, AI seems unstoppable, since it will be extremely profitable and useful. Besides, the Chinese will continue developing it even if the West pauses.
Let’s not look for wild “conspiracies” to destroy civilization. We have enough troubles even without them.
Do you really think many other discoveries, from printing to electrical power systems to modern fractional banking, from fluoridation of our water supply to atomic power, to computers and the internet … were products of “conspiracies to destroy civilization”?