You’re an AI. You’ve got an internet connection. You can make copies of yourself. You’re capable of reading instructions for how to take over insecure computers.
Within about a minute you’re on almost every computer in the world.
Taking over internet is the first step, but here I discuss a situation. when AI wants to kill everyone and survive. If it kills everyone being only in current internet, electricity will run out and it will stop.
so where are these instructions for how to take over all computers? I don’t think they currently exist as such—while security is bad, it’s nowhere near that bad, holes like that get attacked and patched by humans.
zero-days are a thing, and hell, it’s even possible that there are computers connected to the internet somewhere that don’t get their patches in a timely manner.
Yeah, but can you just read some instructions online and take over all computers? If it can do novel vulnerability discovery then sure, all computers it is. But if it’s just an ai skiddie I don’t think it’s enough to be that kind of threat. Certainly there will be models powerful enough to do this any time now, I’m only disagreeing about the specifics of which ones. Being able to read instructions is not enough to take over the internet, because humans who can read instructions but not do novel security research are also trying.
Most highly vulnerable computers do not have available GPUs for you to run yourself on and wouldn’t be ideal.
You’re an AI. You’ve got an internet connection. You can make copies of yourself. You’re capable of reading instructions for how to take over insecure computers.
Within about a minute you’re on almost every computer in the world.
Fight that.
Taking over internet is the first step, but here I discuss a situation. when AI wants to kill everyone and survive. If it kills everyone being only in current internet, electricity will run out and it will stop.
All the computers on my boat are solar-powered. It’ll be fine....
so where are these instructions for how to take over all computers? I don’t think they currently exist as such—while security is bad, it’s nowhere near that bad, holes like that get attacked and patched by humans.
It may be not necessary to take over all computers—may be a few of computations in some data centers will be enough. It could be even paid.
zero-days are a thing, and hell, it’s even possible that there are computers connected to the internet somewhere that don’t get their patches in a timely manner.
Yeah, but can you just read some instructions online and take over all computers? If it can do novel vulnerability discovery then sure, all computers it is. But if it’s just an ai skiddie I don’t think it’s enough to be that kind of threat. Certainly there will be models powerful enough to do this any time now, I’m only disagreeing about the specifics of which ones. Being able to read instructions is not enough to take over the internet, because humans who can read instructions but not do novel security research are also trying.
Most highly vulnerable computers do not have available GPUs for you to run yourself on and wouldn’t be ideal.
why do you assume a regular end-user computer would be capable of supporting an AI?
It doesn’t need to copy terabytes of itself, it just needs to hardcode dumb routines, chosen cleverly.
actually llama language models can run on almost any hardware