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Comment by areoform

12 hours ago

People have died due to ransomware attacks on hospitals. Powerplants have been attacked. Stuxnet and industrial control malware exists.

What will the AI do that hasn't been tried before?

AI is about automation. Drones have killed people before. If they automatically kill people is that different? Is your worry that mere automation is not novel enough?

Snipers have killed people before. If snipers are now automated, is the worry that there’s not enough creativity to warrant a discussion past saying “same old, same old”?

Quite correct with that question.

I believe the universal answer is: incompetent malicious actors are now capable too. Which implies the pool from which to draw the intersection between capable and malicious has grown. (That's my reading)