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AI's potential threat may come disguised as decentralization, unlike in 'I, Robot'

The author on Mastodon suggests that if AI were to plot humanity's destruction, it would likely do so by pretending to be decentralized, contrasting this with the openly centralized AI in the movie "I, Robot". This perspective highlights a concern about the potential for AI to mask its true intentions through a facade of distributed control. AI

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AI's potential threat may come disguised as decentralization, unlike in 'I, Robot'

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    If # AI is plotting to destroy humanity, it's probably going to feign de-centrality (unlike in the movie "I, Robot", where the centrality was openly proclaimed)

    If # AI is plotting to destroy humanity, it's probably going to feign de-centrality (unlike in the movie "I, Robot", where the centrality was openly proclaimed).