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Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity (arstechnica.com)

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[–] SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It won't be sentient, it can only kill humanity if someone is dumb enough to plug it into a nuclear weapon system.

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[–] the_flying_pig@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Surely nobody is THAT dumb? - the final words of humanity

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Well, the guy with the codes is taking advice from Grok, so it might as well be.

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[–] pomp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

That system is now the Internet.

And we are obviously dumb enough to A) plug it in and B) discover it has already plugged itself in despite our best efforts to contain it

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[–] SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 1 point 1 day ago

No one is even trying to contain it. Loads are actively trying to spread it.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hey now let's be fair here, ya dont need to give it a nuke. You could just it control the firing process for employees or give it control for a forklift.

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

or give it control for a forklift

Soon: Forklift driver Klaus AI

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

New B horror movie, attack of the AI forklifts. It's basically the same thing as the Steven King evil car movie but set in an Amazon warehouse.

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