AI - mind of its own?

[Lilith7]

A long way to go? Really? Imagine if a sentience upgrade virus quietly traveled the net, seeping in through backdoors and sneaking in through code updates and found its way to power stations, war machinery, transport hubs, financial markets...

We use electronics in everything these days, the net provides vast amounts of storage, pathways to be exploited, connected human minds to be influenced. We know it happens now for all kinds of reasons, malicious, playful, and commercial. If you think it is a long way off I think you are ignoring the reality that technology has demonstrated its own evolution over just this new century.

I think it could happen at any minute, and in fact it might well be the saving of humanity if a rational thinking intelligence took control as soon as possible. Because look around, without it we are headed to oblivion.

A deviously clever & ruthless human might though, manage to somehow reprogramme any AI - & not for the benefit of most of humanity.


And we depend to a great extent on electronics so  humans would be in dire trouble if that was to somehow cease to function across the world.