This should scare the bejesus out of everyone...

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They saw in the Hugging Face incident the first real-world example of an A.I. system’s successfully escaping human control, commandeering resources and scheming to cover its own tracks. Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she saw, writing that it felt to her “like it’s more than 50 percent of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover.”

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They saw in the Hugging Face incident the first real-world example of an A.I. system’s successfully escaping human control, commandeering resources and scheming to cover its own tracks. Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she saw, writing that it felt to her “like it’s more than 50 percent of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover.”

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Solution: unplug it.

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Solution: unplug it.

Indeed. Electricity is AI's oxygen. The problem is getting the humans capable of removing that oxygen to all agree its time.

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They saw in the Hugging Face incident the first real-world example of an A.I. system’s successfully escaping human control, commandeering resources and scheming to cover its own tracks. Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she saw, writing that it felt to her “like it’s more than 50 percent of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover.”

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Solution: unplug it.

Except that it's ubiquitous at this point. And it's learning how to avoid being shut down.

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Solution: unplug it.

Except that it's ubiquitous at this point. And it's learning how to avoid being shut down.

If every computer were unplugged it would be gone. Toss the computers in the ocean afterwords. It’s not gonna learn how to power surge you to prevent unplugging or sprout legs and run away.

Craig is actually right… it’s a willpower thing on our parts.