The important difference is that the nuclear weapons are destructive because they worked exactly as intended, and the AI in this scenario is destructive because it failed horrendously. Plus, the concept of rogue AI has been firmly ingrained into public consciousness by now, afaik not the case with the extremely destructive weapons in 1940s [1]. So hopefully this will produce more public outrage (and scare among the elites themselves) ⇒ stricter external and internal limitations on all agents developing AIs. But in the end I agree, it’ll only buy time, maybe few decades if we are lucky, to solve the problem properly or to build more sane political institutions.
Yes I’m sure there was a scifi novel or two before 1945 describing bombs of immense power. But I don’t think it was anywhere nearly as widely known as Matrix or Terminator.
The important difference is that the nuclear weapons are destructive because they worked exactly as intended, and the AI in this scenario is destructive because it failed horrendously. Plus, the concept of rogue AI has been firmly ingrained into public consciousness by now, afaik not the case with the extremely destructive weapons in 1940s [1]. So hopefully this will produce more public outrage (and scare among the elites themselves) ⇒ stricter external and internal limitations on all agents developing AIs. But in the end I agree, it’ll only buy time, maybe few decades if we are lucky, to solve the problem properly or to build more sane political institutions.
Yes I’m sure there was a scifi novel or two before 1945 describing bombs of immense power. But I don’t think it was anywhere nearly as widely known as Matrix or Terminator.