@unherd @freddiesayers As for the the nuclear weaponization of AI: a new phase of existential risk—technical, political, ontological. Inscrutable, hallucinating, and unbound, AI now informs nuclear command systems with no felt sense of what Armageddon entails—amid a mimetic swarm unfit to intervene.
@KitKlarenberg That could be accused of being a quaint assessment. Today's recipe? Take the root pathology of a form of diabolical infantilism affording the world no realistic *waking*, that is, *exit* strategy, other than nuclear annihilation. Then, whoopee, algorithmically supercharge it.
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1/2 "Even in neutral scenarios without initially provided conflicts, Big Tech's AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames. All models show signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations.”
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Military veteran Lawrence Wilkerson has testified how, while chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell 2002 - 2005, he participated in a large number of war games exercises pitting the Empire against China, in defence of Taiwan. Every scenario ended in nuclear war, typically within a matter of days. One might expect this would discourage any and all prospect of US bellicosity against Beijing. Fast forward to today though, and Washington’s military chiefs openly discuss all-out conflict with China with alarming regularity. God help us all.
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Cartoon of superpowers at an AI Summit insisting that AI poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humankind while behind the scenes each avers, "And I cannot wait to develop it first."