I imagine some potent mix of rapid wealth generation, unusually persuasive propaganda, weapons technology (e.g. cheap plentiful armed robots), hacking (via software and also hardware infiltration of data centers and chip fabs), unprecedentedly widespread surveillance, strategic forecasting, automated industrial production, sophisticated genetically engineered viruses, brain control technology (e.g. brain computer interfaces with input/output capability), material resource acquisition (e.g. automated asteroid mining, automated deep subterranean mining), rapid scientific R&D, and of course the many potent artificial minds powering all of this, outnumbering bio-human thoughts-per-second by multiple orders of magnitude even if they don’t also have super human intelligence. And then of course, the capability gap widening rapidly since much of this has complementary positive feedback loops.
Humanity is in a very fragile place right now.
I imagine some potent mix of rapid wealth generation, unusually persuasive propaganda, weapons technology (e.g. cheap plentiful armed robots), hacking (via software and also hardware infiltration of data centers and chip fabs), unprecedentedly widespread surveillance, strategic forecasting, automated industrial production, sophisticated genetically engineered viruses, brain control technology (e.g. brain computer interfaces with input/output capability), material resource acquisition (e.g. automated asteroid mining, automated deep subterranean mining), rapid scientific R&D, and of course the many potent artificial minds powering all of this, outnumbering bio-human thoughts-per-second by multiple orders of magnitude even if they don’t also have super human intelligence. And then of course, the capability gap widening rapidly since much of this has complementary positive feedback loops. Humanity is in a very fragile place right now.