For years, BRT has discussed the specter of autonomous weapons and what they could mean for the future of mankind as the AI driving said tech directly echoes what Bill Joy so eloquently warned us about in Why the Future Doesn't Need Us in describing how technological disciplines like AI are capable of going sideways, something most disquieting in light of nations striving to build advanced weaponry based on code we will never fully understand. The terrific Netflix video, UNKNOWN: Killer Bots, takes a balanced view on this topic with fanboys waxing poetic about the emergent capabilities of these systems in "defending America" while others discuss just how easy it is to convert AI from doing good to doing bad by changing just one 0 to 1 as seen in a BRT blurb titled Duh.
Shakespeare's The undiscovered country quote applies as does Opening Pandora's Box.
In The Profit Motive, yours truly asks ... What is the survivability rate of civilizations living on rocky planets reaching the level of tech we have if the same laws of physics apply to said planets as plundering one's home similar to how we are doing to earth in order to amp up said civilizations seems to be a no-brainer AKAICT.
Addendum, more than ever, this existential question centers not only on the implications of AI but also on the 900lb gorilla known as GW as both have the ability, along with nuclear war, to end civilization as we know it.
Think Black Mirror, I know I have.
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