Comment by petesergeant
2 hours ago
As I understand it, you're arguing that all sufficiently dangerous systems are well enough hardened or air-gapped, and that people don't exist who wish to cause harm using these systems? Did I understand right?
2 hours ago
As I understand it, you're arguing that all sufficiently dangerous systems are well enough hardened or air-gapped, and that people don't exist who wish to cause harm using these systems? Did I understand right?
To launch a nuclear missile you need to physically insert a launch code than only the president has closed in a suitcase that is well guarded, as well as physically turn two keys that are enough distant apart that one person alone couldn't.
Now, unless your AI gains access to the codes, and sends two robots in a bunker or nuclear submarine to insert the code and turn the keys to launch the missile, you can be modestly sure that no AI could launch a nuclear missile or nonsense like that.
I'm quite frankly more worried that some foolish president decides one day to launch a nuclear missile than an AI could do it.
Now that we return to the real world, the only thing AI could do is to attach systems that are connected to the internet (and critical systems are not), but let's be real, AI are not really that intelligent by themself, it's not that someday an AI could decide like in Matrix or Terminator to exterminate humans, because (at least now) AI have no consciousness and can't really decide what to do.
An human can of course use an AI to carry out cyberattacks, as he can do that also without AI like it's done since the internet exists, but it's an entirely different thing (a human using a tool, AI, to do damage VS the AI itself that decides by himself to destroy the human race).
It's public knowledge that the code is 000000 because the risk of the president being incapacitated making it impossible to set the bombs off was judged worse than the risk of accidentally setting them off.