Raw LLM Responses

@shadyzz9549 I think there is much more uncertainty here about what it could do than you are considering. The uncertainty we’re dealing with here has to do with large differences in intelligence. For instance, if I played a game of chess against Magnus Carlsen where Magnus was missing a rook, a bishop, and a knight at the start, I would still expect to lose. Now, I couldn’t tell you how specifically Magnus would beat me. For me to predict Magnus’ moves, I would have to be at least as good as Magnus at chess, but I’m not. I can’t tell you specifically what moves he will make to beat me, only that they will lead to a win for Magnus. Now, suppose we don’t give the ai control over any powerful systems. This is a much greater deficit than a knight, bishop, and rook. However, can we be certain it can’t gain control of any powerful systems? Think of what it can do if it’s engaging with humans online. It could scam them for cryptocurrency, blackmail them, persuade people into a cult, hire people with aforementioned crypto, pay them to mix together vials of chemicals, etc. Are we certain that ai couldn’t use such techniques to build a self-replicating nanomachine that kills all humans? I’m not. We might consider an extreme example of a difference in intelligence. Imagine a world where chimpanzees exist but Homo sapiens don’t yet. Suppose you (somehow) tried to warn the chimps of what a huge threat these new intelligent creatures will be? Could chimps conceive of any of the technology that would make humans so powerful? Rifles, tanks, poison gas, bombs, etc? So, suppose we build something that stands in relation to us the way we do to chimps? We can’t be totally certain, but there may be technologies it could figure out that we couldn’t possibly anticipate that could easily wipe us out. What makes it so scary is that we can’t really anticipate it because we are not smarter than ourselves, and we don’t know for sure what’s possible for beings beyond our own intelligence.