Comment by rossant

4 hours ago

An AI, either acting autonomously or under human direction, hacks Russian/North Korea/etc. intelligence systems and convinces them that the US has launched ballistic missiles at them. The end.

Watched one too many second-tier disaster movies?

  • One the one hand, it does sound like one of those movies.

    On the other, Idiocracy turned out to be quite prescient.

    (Most likely, we'll have some combination of human stupidity, LLM stupidity, and way too much compute in one place all working together to create a perfect storm of unchecked hacks that break something or other that ends up killing people in an unintended way. Then there's some half-hearted attempt at cleaning things up so that business can proceed as usual in an even more broken world, rinse and repeat.)