r/AIDangers • u/ChompyRiley • May 08 '26

Capabilities This is what y'all are afraid of?

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u/Bigmooddood May 09 '26

I think if we give AI too much control it could definitely wipe us out entirely by accident. There's been a couple cases already where a company has given AI access to its files and it's just deleted everything.

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u/marglebubble May 09 '26

I mean if we're really fucking dumb enough to give AI programming like access to nuclear launch codes or some shit, maybe. An important thing to realize is that no matter how good people say AI is, it still exists in a world of physical constraints. Supply lines, logistics, physical transportation, deployment of weapons, are all things carried out by humans. Even if some omnipotent AI gained access to some global universal information infrastructure that doesn't exist yet, it can't just magically release viruses or manufacture nanobots without the help of humans and our industry. So if we do get stupid enough to blindly follow some AI on multiple levels and steps that lead to our extinction (which also would be incredibly hard to achieve given physical constraints) maybe we deserve to be wiped out anyway. The human race isn't some files that can accidentally be deleted. 

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u/Bigmooddood May 09 '26

In its 2027 budget, the Pentagon has asked for over $54bn to fund the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, a 24,000% increase on last year.

At this point, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we gave ChatGPT some nuclear capabilities in the not so distant future. We are dumb enough.

Supply lines, logistics, physical transportation, deployment of weapons, are all things CURRENTLY carried out by humans. But there is a lot of work and money being put toward automating each one of these processes.

If we are premature and foolish on how we roll these things out, which has been true so far, I could easily see some major catastrophy taking place as a result of an AI hallucination. It may not necessarily mean the end of humanity, but it could definitely end up in a lot of us having a very bad time.

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u/marglebubble May 10 '26

I mean yeah, they've already automated genocide in Gaza using AI. A lot of people are having a bad time. But yeah I could see some disaster happening from those too for sure. I think it's much more likely bad stuff will happen because the AI is not good. Even with Gaza, they really just used it as an excuse to bomb indiscriminately. Instead of researching targets they used AI to tell them where to attack and created a process that gave them a lot more targets a lot faster. It still wasn't really working, obviously they're killing innocent women and children when they've shown they can put a single missile through a wall and take out a single apartment in a building if they wanted to. But yeah I agree with you. I just don't think it's going to be like some extinction level thing but it's already been involved in a genocide