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Originally Posted by John21
We're not going to allow Dr. Evil to hold us hostage over something tantamount to our water supply. If technology starts threatening the essentials to life, whatever area it's operating in will be relegated to a public utility, like water, energy, etc.
If we reach the point where general, strong, better than human AI exists, all the decisions would be taken by those who control that AI, in the pratictal sense, because they will control all real power.
And the AI will strategize better than the best human, so who knows wether it will choose to go through social manipulation of opinion, violent force, silent assassination through invisible minidrones of all the opposition leaders, planting of fake evidence to jail oppositors etc etc etc.
Imagine the most intelligent person in the world being ridiculed in every dynamic and outplayed constantly, by somebody who never sleeps, and you maybe get the picture.
Wether such an AI could be "controllable" by the creators or not is yet another topic but i dont think for the masses it would make any difference at all.
In the end the AI controllers (or the AI themselves) will win every battle (wether on the ground , or of the mind) and determine everything that happens in human society.
This , i repeat, in the (imo) remote case of strong AGI being developed.
Then there are many other scenarios with different, less totalizing tech and we can talk about them if you want.