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Comment by Freedom2

2 hours ago

If someone made an API to build a data center? Or made an API to keep their lights on? What then?

There are already such "APIs", which can be operated by a combination of textual communication and money. Or by illicit security vulnerabilities. You might notice that LLMs are pretty good at that now.

We're building something that has the capabilities of humans. There is no X for which it's persistently safe to assume humans can X and AI cannot X.

This API may turn out to be manipulating humans via email.

  • Or just paying them. If they have access to resources, they have access to things of monetary value. Paying people will be vastly more powerful than it is even now when people's options of gainful employment keep dwindling.

    Robot army controlled by AI is scary. Even more scary is robot _and_ human army controlled by AI.