>If humans ever get so dependent on AI that they blindly follow the >"advice" of an AI assistant, all it takes is for AI to feed humans a >mis-analysis of a life-threatening situation or potential extinction >event and let the humans do the damage.
Sorry, but I cannot resist an obvious response to this statement. Consider a simple call to your General Physician's office for something reasonably simple. If you are lucky and a "real" person answers the phone call, they will insist on walking through a script of questions. That "script" was probably written via a contracting company, working with unknown programmers, with unknown backgrounds, in unknown locations, probably originally working in remote languages, on unknown computer systems, following unknown logic (if any), and hoping for an immediate $return$ on their effort. This is seen by many (of the public) as "today's wonderful computer help" and by others as "modern AI". If future AI can wipe out humanity, this might happen by "future AI" causing very basic human interactions to be replaced by extended nonsense. Bill *********** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
