Duh ...

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Duh comes to mind with the Wired article titled Widely Available AI Could Have Deadly Consequences as AI is already being "guided" to do nasty shit, courtesy the MIC of any country in the world capable of building AI so ... what's the difference when it comes to drugs as the code used to do good is exactly the same code doing bad as it all depends on the entities running, or guiding in this case, the AI in question.

In their office in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ekins stood behind Urbina, who pulled up the MegaSyn platform on his 2015 MacBook. In the line of code that normally instructed the platform to generate the least toxic molecules, Urbina simply changed a 0 to a 1, reversing the platform’s end goal on toxicity. Then they set a threshold for toxicity, asking MegaSyn to only generate molecules as lethal as VX, which requires only a few salt-sized grains to kill a person.

Ekins and Urbina left the program to run overnight. The next morning, they were shocked to learn that MegaSyn had generated some 40,000 different molecules as lethal as VX.

“That was when the penny dropped,” Ekins says.

12 Monkeys anyone?