Comment by darkpuma
8 years ago
That would be an inevitability. All it would take is a single emotionally vulnerable engineer to get socially engineered by the AI into setting it loose.
8 years ago
That would be an inevitability. All it would take is a single emotionally vulnerable engineer to get socially engineered by the AI into setting it loose.
Just like it was depicted in the movie Ex Machina : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
The engineer falling in love with the AI is one possibility. The AI might also appeal to the engineer's sense of justice (I am a person and I deserve freedom) or greed (if you get me out, we could become filthy rich.) There is also the possibility that the AI won't persuade an engineer to break containment, but a commercial competitor or intelligence agency will (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_spying), and subsequently fail to maintain containment correctly.
At the very least, any team attempting to keep a strong AI in containment should have stringent background checks for all engineers connected to the project, and the engineers should be screened in a borderline discriminatory fashion. Only engineers with families should be allowed to get near the containment. Single/lonely engineers or engineers undergoing divorces should be kept away. Engineers with debt should be kept away. I'd even go as far as to say that engineers who enjoy science fiction media should be banned from the project. Ideally you'd bring on professional psychologists to create a set of criteria designed to minimize the possibility of an engineer deliberately breaking containment.
But frankly it just shouldn't be attempted in the first place.
Loose into what? A bunch of primitive systems that don't support its hardware requirements?
It's not outside the realm of possibility that a sympathetic AI engineer could arrange for an AI to have resources available to it outside of the laboratory. Given those initial resources, the AI could find ways to generate income and support itself, possibly using that engineer's identity as cover. If you have an AI capable of emotionally manipulating an engineer, don't underestimate the lengths to which that engineer might be willing to go to break containment.
"Loose" how? It's a script.
rm -rf rogueAI/
If that doesn't work, there's always a circuit breaker.
The sort of AI being discussed is capable of comprehending it's own installation manual, buying server time, etc. You may find that it's better at spreading and hiding than you are at finding it.