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> Even if an AI has the launch codes for ICBMs somewhere in its training data, it doesn't have an interface to the nearest missile silo to use them. It cannot commandeer the resources (hardware, space, cooling, electricity) it needs to operate, it is dependent on humans to supply those.

How do you know the AI doesn’t have an interface to the middle silo?

Are there no military systems that are connected to the internet?

Is the power grid connected to the internet? How about our water filtration system?

I’m not worried that gpt4 is going to start launching missiles, but I also don’t understand where the certainty comes from that it isn’t possible for an internet connected AI to launch missiles.



> I'm not worried that gpt4 is going to start launching missiles

Cool SciFi showerthought:

An AI will probably know that Stuxnet happened.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

An AI could trick multiple human actors into unknowingly assembling all the pieces together for a nuclear launch.




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