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DerMonolith t1_j6x7mn1 wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in Why do people think they might witness AGI taking over the world in a singularity? by purepersistence

This sub is full of this and I want real concrete answers. You can’t just say you “put it” into x. Explain that. Explain why if things went a little south you wouldn’t just stop the power to the factory or reboot it. Explain please! Because right now there’s a very good conversation bot that was trained on basically the whole internet, and now we have comments like this extrapolating that that means world takeover.

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Surur t1_j6xkp88 wrote

So the OP's question was:

> Do you think that we'll relinquish control of our infrastructure including farming, energy, weapons etc?

To which I said yes. The reason is because AI will be more efficient than us at running it, which will lead market forces to make us relinquish control to AI, or be out-competed by those who already did.

If things went south at a power station, only very few people can respond, and in all likelihood they will no longer be there as they have not been needed for some time.

Practically speaking - you may want an AI to balance a national grid to optimise the use of variable renewable energy.

Such an AI will not be under human control, as it will have to act quickly.

So just like that we have lost control, and if the AI wants to bring down the grid there is nothing we can do about it.

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