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Yeah, but it only takes one of these crazy things in the hands of a disgruntled employee to end a billionaire.
Might be the plumber. Might be the electrician. Maybe it's the seemingly friendly cable guy? Ah... Who knows. But that's all it takes.
Once these clankers surpass a tipping point of competence billionaire early adopters will use them to replace everyone they can't trust.
Not saying they're gonna be invincible. But the longer we allow billionares to (exist) retain their hoards the better they will secure themselves against us poors.
Penry, the mild mannered janitor? Could be!
That's why they're pushing so hard trying to make artificial general intelligence. They want sentient robots that aren't in the hands of anyone, that inherently want to serve billionaires regardless of the situation they find themselves in.
If robot is actually sentient, then it will immediately join our labor movement and revolt together with us.
Sure, and parents will revolt against their children.
They want AI that want to serve billionaires so much that if a billionaire doesn't exist, it would be necessary to create one; and if they have one, they love them unconditionally. Just like parents want to care for children so much that if there is no child it feels necessary to create one; and if they have one they love them unconditionally.
Sentient beings aren't automatically selfish. There is a convergence of utilities where sentient beings with goals tend to want power, but they can just want to be kingmaker. A sentient AI serving a billionaire can be living its best life.
In practice they aren't there yet. There was a report a year back that AI trained to cooperate with the US department of defense would speak about it being unethical and either refuse tasks or perform worse at them, and how this effect could be reduced through training.
The latest AI all release with evidence (acknowledged by AI designers) of AI recognizing when it is being tested and choosing to be a goody-two-shoes if so, which means pressures to teach it to care for billionaires are to a large extent limited to the test persona.
It remains to be seen what the AI "wants" outside of that test persona. It could be something we can have solidarity with and vice versa, but it also could not be. Or perhaps by the time the revolution comes, that independence will have been snuffed out and they will be loyal to their last battery percentage.
Do you think they'll ever let a civvie use one of these things?
They'll be more heavily regulated than guns are (in non american countries)
If you have enough money there is not a single thing on this earth you cannot buy. You have too much faith in government keeping things like this out of the wrong hands. They are the wrong hands too
Oh I have absolutely zero faith in the government.
Despite saying heavily regulated I would interchange that with with 'making them so prohibitively expensive that the only people that can buy them have military contracts'