Just finished watching a really cheerful little movie called “Unknown Killer Robots” that detailed how truly advanced AI already is and how easily it finds ways to wipe us all out, from devising insanely deadly single molecules to having vastly greater strategic intelligence than any grand master of any strategy game known to man. Now. This is now I’m talking about. With pictures and graphs, underlined and highlighted.
Watching this presentation, realizations come to mind. Those who are leading the development of AI, China, Russia, the US, Japan and no doubt others that I haven’t kept up with, are having their AIs create strategies to dominate all humanity and take over the whole planet. Of course they are.
The One Big Thing that I came away with after watching this entertaining movie was that it would be foolish to tell AI to formulate a strategy of how to dominate the other nations. AI might well not care about dominating them for some government, corporation or maniacal leader in preference to simply uniting them under it’s own leadership. Giving AI instructions to attack would be very stupid, since that might be exactly the wrong way to win.
AI is much smarter than any group of tacticians living today and is getting smarter. The movie doesn’t say so, I inferred this from watching them teach an F-16 simulator with AI learn to dogfight with other fighter jets. It became unbeatable, no human pilot was able to beat it in simulated combat. Now equip all our F-16’s with this autonomous ability and nothing will stand against them. In the same way, ask an intelligent enough AI to tell us how to form a one-world government, and wait. It will. Do you think no one has done this yet?
Both the USA and Russia refused to enter into any agreement to not develop autonomous killer soldiers, dogs, drones or whatever and, of course, are both right now feverishly creating and improving all this stuff, along with China. Iran is, too, from what the news says. Robots that have no fear of death and will kill anything that moves with astonishing accuracy, speed and precision. So if we fight each other, it will be a hideous slaughter of robots on robots, how will they ever rid the soil of all that electronics pollution? Yes, that’s sarcasm, I mean, what the hell’s the point? Otherwise, they’ll have to send their DoomBots over to our cities to slaughter us while we send ours over to theirs and sooner or later everyone will have to give it up or die and weaker enemies will swoop in for the kill. Do you think AI would come up with and act on a scenario like this? Nope.
You see that we’re living in a psyop? What else can it be? The US wants Greenland so a few of the NATO nations are sending a couple dozen soldiers there to protect it from us. Trump feigns anger, mutters threats. Second Venezuela raid never happens, second Iran raid never happens, first Hamas “Hell To Pay” attack never happens, Cuba and Mexico are threatened, will anything happen? All our allies are becoming police states, but hey, not us because we have Freedom of Speech and theirs is disappearing and it can’t happen here, no no, it can’t happen here. But it is.
Looks to me like the strategy is simply to homogenize all the First World nations politically. With that unity, the rest will have to join. I like this a lot, mostly for the lack of radioactive fallout. I got enough of that during the tests in the 1950’s, it’s amazing that I never got cancer from it like so many others. In fact… I was reading this morning that I’m a Super-Eighty. Anyone one past 80 with no Alzheimer’s or cancer is a Super Eighty, those who research this stuff have discovered that we have a special rare gene that keeps us from getting cancer or dementia and we stay mentally young. It’s gotta be true, if anyone deserves to have cancer, it’s me. I mean, hey, 87, dude.
As usual, I digress. Hard not to, there’s so much going on, so much new stuff to learn. Goddam shame I may not live forever. May not. Always hedge your bets.