Re: Pointless Re: Eugene's nuclear threat

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 00:51:56 MDT


"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> Brian Atkins wrote,
>
> > I don't have ~big~ concerns about AI that becomes evil
> > due to its own purely AI motivations
> >
> > I do worry, though, about evil humans using AI in evil ways
>
> Now you're getting realistic. We humans don't need to worry so much about
> dangerous technology as we need to get occupied about organized Fundamentalist
> sociopaths who intend to destroy the Earth in order to save it.
>

Fundies neither have a monopoly on that nor on picking out particular
groups (<insert your least favorite label here>) to demonize as the
source of all evil.

-s.



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