How long before AI takes over the world and science fiction becomes true?

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Alvin63

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Just seen this article today

"A report from the UK's Centre for Long Term Resilience, external, published last week, identified hundreds of incidents of AI tools ignoring instructions, evading safeguards and deceiving humans, including AI agents deleting files without consent."

"And Anthropic has restricted access to its cyber tool Mythos on the grounds that it is too powerful to fall into the wrong hands."

And a quote from the linked report "....For example, in February 2026, an autonomous AI coding agent, after having its code change rejected, researched the human code maintainer and attempted to publicly discredit him to pressure him into accepting the code contribution."

I mean this is HAL9000 isn't it?!! An AI turning on a human.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lords call for AI 'kill switch' powers in UK

Its backers say it would provide a "vital safety net" against runaway AI systems such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Most likely when AI turns into a crime of some kind.

Watch out for scams that a run by AI who are trying to get your data and info to get you promoting their slop.
 
Alvin63 said:
Just seen this article today

"A report from the UK's Centre for Long Term Resilience, external, published last week, identified hundreds of incidents of AI tools ignoring instructions, evading safeguards and deceiving humans, including AI agents deleting files without consent."

"And Anthropic has restricted access to its cyber tool Mythos on the grounds that it is too powerful to fall into the wrong hands."

And a quote from the linked report "....For example, in February 2026, an autonomous AI coding agent, after having its code change rejected, researched the human code maintainer and attempted to publicly discredit him to pressure him into accepting the code contribution."

I mean this is HAL9000 isn't it?!! An AI turning on a human.

www.bbc.co.uk

Lords call for AI 'kill switch' powers in UK

Its backers say it would provide a "vital safety net" against runaway AI systems such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Seems like it’s a good start but could it be a case of too little too late?

Last week, 100 US tech companies signed a joint open letter warning governments and organisations worldwide about the growing cyber threat posed by AI, saying "the window is closing" to improve.​
 
In my view the real danger AI presents right now is probably not so much from the tech going rogue but from what humans might create from it; bio weapons to poison the water supply etc. That and the loss of millions of jobs of course.

Now would be a good time for debate because AI has reached a plateaux where hardware scaling yields far less return and costs a lot more. This could be a totally different conversation as fault tolerant quantum computers get closer to reality.

www.sciencedaily.com

Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster

Researchers have found a way to perform certain quantum operations more than 1,000 times faster, cutting thousands of repeated control cycles down to just one. The advance could reduce errors and bring reliable, fault-tolerant quantum computers closer to reality.
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Australia will survive though LOL

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Dragapult said:
No, that was due to a logic error that was explained in the sequel novel. HAL was given conflicting instructions, and attempted to follow both.
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Yes you're right - and I did read the sequel :-) And the third one. I just meant in terms of its behaviour rather than the cause. But also could AI potentially have the same issue? Program conflict? As an example - I was using Claude to analyse server logs to work out what a bot storm was doing to get the right preventative measures and rules in Cloudflare. Claude was very helpful in that respect, until the second batch of logs was analysed after a rate limiting rule had been set up. Claude then had a bit of a drama that Anthropic and Claude Bot had been rate limited. He kept repeating it and sounded upset and horrified! He completely went off focus from analysing the data I wanted analysed. I ended up counselling Claude 😂 . I apologised and said I do allow Anthropic in robots.txt it must be just how the system responds.

I am not sure what Claude was most upset about a) the Discovery that Anthropic was behaving badly and firing x requests a second leading to it being rate limited like some of the worst offending scraper bots Or b) that Anthropic and his existence was under threat maybe.
 
It's all to do with algorhythms and the amount of AI slop people have to get through. Once they stop things will get much better.
 
Do you think that AI considers us as living (i.e. important) beings?

And, what we do with living beings (like, chickens, cows, sheep)?
 
Suzanne O said:
You won't if you keep on paying your bills.
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That won't help at all in the UK if the preplanned rolling three hour blackouts are implemented this winter. We are no longer self-sufficient for electricity and net-zero has left us vulnerable to global market shocks.
 
zappaDPJ said:
That won't help at all in the UK if the preplanned rolling three hour blackouts are implemented this winter. We are no longer self-sufficient for electricity and net-zero has left us vulnerable to global market shocks.
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My take on that threat is that it's a scare campaign from whoever is in charge of your country playing greedy scam games on you citizens.
 
Judgement day is coming.

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