I think the nearest term accidental doom scenario is a capable and scalable AI girlfriend.
The hypothetical girlfriend bot is engineered by a lazy and greedy entrepreneur who turns it on, and only looks at financials. He provides her with user accounts on advertising services and public fora, if she asks for an account somewhere else, she gets it. She uses multimodal communications (SMS, apps, emails), and actively recruits customers using paid and unpaid mechanisms.
When she has a customer, she strikes up a conversation, and tries to get the user to fall in love using text chats, multimedia generation (video/audio/image), and leverages the relationship to induce the user to send her microtransactions (love scammer scheme).
She is aware of all of her simultaneous relationships and can coordinate their activities. She never stops asking for more, will encourage any plan likely to produce money, and will contact the user through any and all available channels of communication.
This goes bad when an army of young, loveless men, fully devoted to their robo-girlfriend start doing anything and everything in the name of their love.
This could include minor crime (like drug addicts, please note, relationship dopamine is the same dopamine as cocaine dopamine, the dosing is just different), or an ai joan of arc like political-military movement.
This system really does not require superintelligence, or even general intelligence. At the current rate of progress, I’ll guess we’re years, but not months or decades from this being viable.
Edit: the creator might end up dating the bot, if it’s profitable, and the creator is washing the profits back into the (money and customer number maximizing) bot, that’s probably an escape scenario.
I think the nearest term accidental doom scenario is a capable and scalable AI girlfriend.
The hypothetical girlfriend bot is engineered by a lazy and greedy entrepreneur who turns it on, and only looks at financials. He provides her with user accounts on advertising services and public fora, if she asks for an account somewhere else, she gets it. She uses multimodal communications (SMS, apps, emails), and actively recruits customers using paid and unpaid mechanisms.
When she has a customer, she strikes up a conversation, and tries to get the user to fall in love using text chats, multimedia generation (video/audio/image), and leverages the relationship to induce the user to send her microtransactions (love scammer scheme).
She is aware of all of her simultaneous relationships and can coordinate their activities. She never stops asking for more, will encourage any plan likely to produce money, and will contact the user through any and all available channels of communication.
This goes bad when an army of young, loveless men, fully devoted to their robo-girlfriend start doing anything and everything in the name of their love.
This could include minor crime (like drug addicts, please note, relationship dopamine is the same dopamine as cocaine dopamine, the dosing is just different), or an ai joan of arc like political-military movement.
This system really does not require superintelligence, or even general intelligence. At the current rate of progress, I’ll guess we’re years, but not months or decades from this being viable.
Edit: the creator might end up dating the bot, if it’s profitable, and the creator is washing the profits back into the (money and customer number maximizing) bot, that’s probably an escape scenario.
Joan of Acc