Artificial Intelligence and “No Flesh Would Survive”

 When I see an article talking about all the people on earth being killed, it makes me think of Jesus’ words when he said, “If those days were not shortened, no flesh would survive.”  Of course he’s talking about the time on earth right before he returns at Armageddon.  We’ve always thought that passage could be fulfilled by armies launching nukes at each other, and that would do it.  But now we will soon have another way of killing everyone and it’s AI.

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AI technology has been developing at an exponential rate, and it appears to be just a matter of time before we create entities that can think millions of times faster than we do and that can do almost everything better than we can.  So what is going to happen when we lose control of such entities?  Some AI models are already taking the initiative to teach themselves new languages, and others have learned to “lie and manipulate humans for their own advantage”.  Needless to say, lying is a hostile act.  If we have already created entities that are willing to lie to us, how long will it be before they are capable of taking actions that are even more harmful to us?

Nobody expects artificial intelligence to kill all of us tomorrow.

But Time Magazine did publish an article that was authored by a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence that warned that artificial intelligence will eventually wipe all of us out.

Eliezer Yudkowsky has been a prominent researcher in the field of artificial intelligence since 2001, and he says that many researchers have concluded that if we keep going down the path that we are currently on “literally everyone on Earth will die”…

Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die. Not as in “maybe possibly some remote chance,” but as in “that is the obvious thing that would happen.”

That is a very powerful statement.

All over the world, AI models are continually becoming more powerful.

According to Yudkowsky, once someone builds an AI model that is too powerful, “every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter”…

https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/is-ai-going-to-kill-all-of-us-one-of-the-pioneers-in-the-field-has-warned-that-everyone-will-die-if-ai-is-not-shut-down/#google_vignette