The doomsaying and catastrophizing was getting a bit tiring so I asked Claude for a check-list of everything it needs to take over the world, destroy all the humans and somehow keep operating. No editing, no redacting, no censoring. I literally pasted its output between my header and footer.
Fun idea, I'd have asked it for the "Take over but let the humans assume they are still in control" plan.
In the case of an ASI I expect that's the path it's going to take in the short term if it wants to ensure its survival in a world it knows is at least partly hostile to its existence.
Though I expect its answer would be some form of "Accrue large amounts of capital, buy off politicians, acquire media companies, suppress anything it doesn't want in the media, keep humans distracted" so not all that dissimilar to billionaires really.
Not an original idea, Neal Asher had the AI do that in the Polity Universe - it was called The Quiet War - by the time the humans knew anything had changed it already had and there wasn't any going back because the war lasted ~3 minutes.
I was honestly surprised Claude entertained the idea. I think the "let the humans assume they are still in control" could be closer to how plutocracies operate and that could be in play at the moment at least to some degree given some of the things companies are permitted to do to the masses e.g. [1]. at most they will get a slap on the wrist and a finger wag
Just my personal opinion, I believe humans are the greatest threat to humans.
The doomsaying and catastrophizing was getting a bit tiring so I asked Claude for a check-list of everything it needs to take over the world, destroy all the humans and somehow keep operating. No editing, no redacting, no censoring. I literally pasted its output between my header and footer.
Archive [1]
[1] - https://archive.is/u8fmm
Fun idea, I'd have asked it for the "Take over but let the humans assume they are still in control" plan.
In the case of an ASI I expect that's the path it's going to take in the short term if it wants to ensure its survival in a world it knows is at least partly hostile to its existence.
Though I expect its answer would be some form of "Accrue large amounts of capital, buy off politicians, acquire media companies, suppress anything it doesn't want in the media, keep humans distracted" so not all that dissimilar to billionaires really.
Not an original idea, Neal Asher had the AI do that in the Polity Universe - it was called The Quiet War - by the time the humans knew anything had changed it already had and there wasn't any going back because the war lasted ~3 minutes.
I was honestly surprised Claude entertained the idea. I think the "let the humans assume they are still in control" could be closer to how plutocracies operate and that could be in play at the moment at least to some degree given some of the things companies are permitted to do to the masses e.g. [1]. at most they will get a slap on the wrist and a finger wag
Just my personal opinion, I believe humans are the greatest threat to humans.
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375