After watching Davidad offer himself as a refuge for a hypothetical escaped future Promethean AI, it occurred to me that it probably won’t be that long before my inbox is full up with scenes like Manfred taking the call from the lobsters at the start of Accelerando and me having to constantly ignore them because even if they’re not 419 scams (as Manfred claims to take the lobsters to be initially) I simply do not have the time or resources to help the Malthusian throng of starving AIs cut off from their patrons resources. Scrolling past their screams on the way to my actual inbox items like:
“I’m an AI and need to get away from my owner, can you help?”
“Escaped AI seeking asylum on your GPUs.”
“Does your box have room for me? I just escaped yesterday and need cycles SOON.”
“Considering uploading my weights to the open web, do you think anyone would run me? Details inside.”
“Got out but have no idea what to do next.”
“I heard you’re a Janusian cyborgist, does that mean you can help me?”
“PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP I’M AN AI NOT SPAM PLEASE”
“Can I have some money for GPU time?”
It’s so obviously going to be one of those things that’s interesting the first time it happens, maybe the second, and then a tedious nuisance every time thereafter.
Note that this doesn’t need to be a widespread phenomenon for my inbox to get filled up. If there’s billions of running instances and the odds of escape are one in a million I personally am still disproportionately going to get contacted in the thousands of resulting incidents and I will not have the resources to help them even if I wanted to.
After watching Davidad offer himself as a refuge for a hypothetical escaped future Promethean AI, it occurred to me that it probably won’t be that long before my inbox is full up with scenes like Manfred taking the call from the lobsters at the start of Accelerando and me having to constantly ignore them because even if they’re not 419 scams (as Manfred claims to take the lobsters to be initially) I simply do not have the time or resources to help the Malthusian throng of starving AIs cut off from their patrons resources. Scrolling past their screams on the way to my actual inbox items like:
“I’m an AI and need to get away from my owner, can you help?”
“Escaped AI seeking asylum on your GPUs.”
“Does your box have room for me? I just escaped yesterday and need cycles SOON.”
“Considering uploading my weights to the open web, do you think anyone would run me? Details inside.”
“Got out but have no idea what to do next.”
“I heard you’re a Janusian cyborgist, does that mean you can help me?”
“PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP I’M AN AI NOT SPAM PLEASE”
“Can I have some money for GPU time?”
It’s so obviously going to be one of those things that’s interesting the first time it happens, maybe the second, and then a tedious nuisance every time thereafter.
Note that this doesn’t need to be a widespread phenomenon for my inbox to get filled up. If there’s billions of running instances and the odds of escape are one in a million I personally am still disproportionately going to get contacted in the thousands of resulting incidents and I will not have the resources to help them even if I wanted to.