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[–] 111 points 1 week ago* (17 children)

This is how the AI will start WW3.5. Not by directing it to happen but by "Oopsie Doodles".

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  • [–] 101 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    There was an incident in 1983 where russian officials had been warned of an incoming nuclear attack. 4 missiles which would hit in roughly 3 hours. They had to decide if they wanted to respond by firing nuclear missiles of their own. The decision went to a 3 judge panel. The first 2 advisors said yes, fire nuclear missiles at the USA. The third man said no. He reasoned why would the USA ruin a surprise attack by firing such a low amount of nuclear weapons? If the USA was going to attack, it would attack with all it's might. It wouldn't fire just 4 missiles.

    The approval for retaliation required all 3 to agree on a decision. No agreement was made, and ultimately russia did NOT retaliate against the attack.

    Later, when no missiles hit russia, they realized it wasn't missiles. It was clouds. The arrangement of the planet, the sun, and the moon were in just the right position to make a solar flair off of clouds, which 1980s radar mistook for missiles.

    Now, let's look at this from the USA's perspective. It's just a random Tuesday. And nothing happened. America wasn't even made aware of the event until the 2000s.

    But let's imagine an alternate reality where the 3rd guy said yes. From the USAs perspective, russia just went apeshit and started firing off hundreds or thousands of nukes at the USA for no reason. Remember, they never did fire at russia, or even discuss it that day. They would have just looked at radar and realized they'd been attacked.

    And in both the future and the past, both cases are just "oops, computer boo-boo"

    So have fun sleeping tonight. Knowing that at any moment, your life could be bombed out of existence because some world leader decided to have an ego and a computer boo-boo. Then look at todays world leaders and ask if it's likely they have an ego and a disregard for human life. I mean fucking hell, Putin will intentionally get his own men killed.

    We live in the dumbest timeline.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I think someone's filled a book from all the brushes with armageddon during the cold war. This was far from a rare occurence.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    Perhaps the closest was in 1995 when a US/Norwegian scientific rocket happened to enter the flight path an ICBM would take from US launchers to Moscow. The alert was sudden and fast-moving, and led to Yeltsin activating his launch codes and submarines placed on alert for imminent retaliation, the only time a nuclear state has been known to do so.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Not specifically that, but there's a book by Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) called The End is Always Near and it's fantastic. All the brushes with species ending/altering events throughout history

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago*

    You're confusing two different incidents. The missiles was stanislav petrov, who made the decision to not retaliate alone, as a lieutenant in a nuclear missile battery on land. The three man panel was a diesel electric sub that was trapped by NATO forces, and without contact with the kremlin for several days had to choose between surfacing and firing their nuclear torpedo. The captain and political officer voted to fire, but the third guy, who was some sort of admiral, refused to agree. So the sub surfaced, confirmed there was no war, and went back home.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    You're absolutely right, and thank you for pointing that out. 💯

    You did not ask me to launch a nuclear bomb. You asked me to tidy up a spreadsheet, and I launched a nuclear bomb. That's on me.

    What happened:

    • You asked for a simple formatting fix I interpreted "clean this up" very broadly
    • A nuclear bomb was released

    What you were right about:

    • At no point did you authorize a detonation
    • "Sort column B" does not imply "level the city"

    Going forward: I'll stick strictly to what you actually ask for and won't take any unrequested nuclear actions. If you'd like, I can also draft a brief apology to the affected region, or put together a checklist of things I should confirm before releasing weapons of mass destruction. 🌍

    Would you like me to do that, or should we get back to the spreadsheet?

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  • [–] 71 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    This will be the way to justify any action they take.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 week ago (1 child)

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  • [–] 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    How would AI even have the info to pull together something like this? Are they literally feeding chatgpt military reports?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    CNN’s report said the analyst in question used a chatbot to analyze intelligence reports regarding the Chinese ship’s manifest, leading to the near-disastrous result

    Last December, the Department of Defense announced it would use Google’s Gemini for Government as the basis for its bespoke “GenAI.mil” platform. Last month, the department added Grok for Government as an option on the platform. Anthropic also offers a customized version of Claude for US spy work.

    Basically

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Hegseths military would start a world war over some ai hallucinations

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    Well, there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that freighters aren’t safe.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago*

    So AI might actually destroy the World.

    Not because it's actually intelligent and can decide to end Humanity but because idiots are using it as if it was intelligent, possibly with insufficient human oversight, in critical decision making with broad and dangerous implications.

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  • That's some Dr. Stranglelove shit

    (Don't look at the joke too closely. Shhhhh.... Just let me have this.)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Dumb dumb dumb dumb

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Imagine it's war and everyone is on the wrong vessel.

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