<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:x-small" class="gmail_default">By the time anyone could pull the switch on AI, it will be like GPS, wired into everything.<br></div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:x-small" class="gmail_default">I am reminded of a case years ago where a worm was doubling every 8 seconds. People could not stop it, even pulling the power to the servers, it was infecting. Human reaction times from understanding that there is a problem to doing something about it are just too slow. AI may not be that fast, but I don't think it matters.<br></div><br>Keith<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of Ben<br>
Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br>
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>...Perhaps what we should be aiming for instead of 'AI safety', is making<br>
sure that humans, and the human economy, remain indispensable to them, at<br>
least in the short-term.<br>
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Ben<br>
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Ja to all Ben. Eliezer suggested a huge internet cutoff switch of some<br>
kind, a safety breaker of some kind. Then the AIs are our hostages. On the<br>
other hand, we too are hostage to electronic communication. We can't do<br>
without it.<br>
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spike <br>
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