Passways to AI infrastructure Obviously, the current infrastructure is not automated enough to run without humans. All ideas about AI risk eventually boil down to a few suggestions on how AI will create its own infrastructure:
No-humans scenarios: - create nanobots via mailing DNA samples to some humans. - use some biological tricks, like remote control animals, and programmed bacteria. - build large manufacturing robots, maybe even humanoid ones to work in human-adapted workplaces. Build robots which build robots.
Humans-remain scenarios: - enslave some humans, kill others - manipulate humans’ brains so that they never know that they are the infrastructure (memes, brain implants) - manipulate humans so that they will continue to build infrastructure and get paid for it without seeing risks (bitcoin did it in some sense) or will do it in the hope to use the infrastructure against the enemy group of humans
Your non-humans scenarios are not mutually exclusive; if mailing DNA samples doesn’t work in practice for whatever reason, the manufacturing facilities that would be used to make large manufacturing robots would suffice. You probably shouldn’t conflate both scenarios.
Passways to AI infrastructure
Obviously, the current infrastructure is not automated enough to run without humans. All ideas about AI risk eventually boil down to a few suggestions on how AI will create its own infrastructure:
No-humans scenarios:
- create nanobots via mailing DNA samples to some humans.
- use some biological tricks, like remote control animals, and programmed bacteria.
- build large manufacturing robots, maybe even humanoid ones to work in human-adapted workplaces. Build robots which build robots.
Humans-remain scenarios:
- enslave some humans, kill others
- manipulate humans’ brains so that they never know that they are the infrastructure (memes, brain implants)
- manipulate humans so that they will continue to build infrastructure and get paid for it without seeing risks (bitcoin did it in some sense) or will do it in the hope to use the infrastructure against the enemy group of humans
Your non-humans scenarios are not mutually exclusive; if mailing DNA samples doesn’t work in practice for whatever reason, the manufacturing facilities that would be used to make large manufacturing robots would suffice. You probably shouldn’t conflate both scenarios.