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[–] hrdtak 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I think the risks of AI are really overblown. AI is like an illusion, it looks like magic to someone who doesn't know what is going on behind the scenes, but when you look behind the curtain you realize that it is just a machine that is incredibly efficient at following instructions and doing specific tasks. We are still a long way off from developing machines that think and learn the same as a human.

There is no stopping the evolution of our technology towards robots and automation.

Eventually the destructive potential of technology is going to make nukes look like bows and arrows. Imagine swarms of self-replicating nanobots that get out of a lab and destroy organic matter. Intentionally destructive robots, or a software bug causing potentially destructive robots to malfunction, these seem like much greater risks to me.