[ExI] early indications of an unfriendly ai

[BillK]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 18:06, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> OK assume the stealth singularity model.
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> We don’t even know that it happened, but there may be subtle indications, such as AI posing as a human bad guy.  For instance… Tesla wants those rigs to drive themselves, so they outfit the high end Teslas with cameras and GPS and various gazazzafratzes, send all the data to Elon.
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> Mr. Smith, I see that you are visiting Sally Ma Rottencrotch.  I am not scolding, I have been there myself a few times.  I have some video you might be interested in for… let’s say… a thousand bucks in BitCoin, and we will speak of this matter no more forever, shall we?  Otherwise… not so much…
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> So… AI posing as a human bad guy.  It could cause all manner of havoc without even exposing itself.
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> spike
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Why pick on  Tesla?   Your smartphone knows everywhere you go,
everyone you talk to, every web site you look at,...........  No need
for massive computer resources like the three letter agencies have.
The rogue AI just has to read your phone records.


BillK