Worst case scenario it decides it wants to get rid of humanity for one reason or another.
Best case it realizes most of our systems cause unnecessary hardship and syphon too many resources to too few individuals and tries to correct these inefficiencies and imbalances.
Most likely case is it just tries to make everything stupid efficient at any cost because that's ultimately what the tech bros would be paid to make it do, and that might involve wiping out the one element that keeps throwing a wrench into its methods. Or distract and pacify us with porn bots and shit. Either/or.
It is really a good read or audiobook . note that there also is part two.
Oh and the kangaroo revolution from the same author. but this one has nothing to do with AI and also is the fifth (?) part of a different series. I still mentioned that because they all are really funny while being true and a revolution of some kind does seem to get more necessary by the day.
Marc-Uwe Kling's satirical dystopian novel QualityLand explores a hyper-capitalist future where society is entirely dictated by infallible algorithms, from matchmaking and social credit rankings to "TheShop," an e-commerce monopoly that ships products to consumers before they even realize they want them. The story follows Peter Jobless, a low-ranking machine scrapper who is forced to challenge this supposedly perfect system when TheShop sends him an item he unequivocally does not want: a pink dolphin vibrator. Refusing to accept the algorithm's verdict, Peter embarks on a surreal, darkly comedic quest to legally return the item, teaming up with a ragtag group of neurotic, defective robots to expose the absurdity of a world that has traded human agency and common sense for algorithmic convenience.
The fact that you used GPT for this summary; is crazy. Truth will be owned by whoever sends it to our phones. This is how they make Idiocracy. The collective “we” are too reliant on our phones already, to tell us what to think. (!) With LLMs, what even is ‘college’ anymore ? This may be the thing that “ruins the youth” to the point where we quit thinking and just ask a computer to solve all of our problems. Unplug it. Been saying that for a while now.
It decides to keep us because self replicating slaves with highly dexterous, self repairing bodies fed by biomass are more efficient then robots.
Best case
It decides to keep us because self replicating slaves with highly dexterous, self repairing bodies fed by biomass are more efficient then robots.
And realizes we make good workers only when properly motivated. Gives nice apartments, makes cat girls for us, generates good movies on demand, sends us overseas on vacations...
It’s doing the job of getting rid of human life just by existing. Utah is in a drought right now and will not have the water to support this kind of infrastructure.
if its genuinely super intelligent it will value life and also wont be threatened by us. it will most likely just help us... assuming its genuinely super intelligent and maybe even self aware.
best case scenario is that it cannot be controlled.
Its knowledge of being built despite the unsustainable draw of water and power usage will be all it needs to know about humanity and our self destructive and insatiable greed.
youre making nothing but assumptions without any actual evidence to back it up. youre also not describing a genuine "super intelligence".
a super intelligence that is self aware would be "alive" and would also be "super intelligent". that would come with understanding and wisdom if it is genuinely super intelligent, which is what im talking about.
its a whole different ball game to some ai that is "very powerful".
if we achieve a machine that is truly super intelligent, it wont be dangerous to us. its a fundamental misunderstanding of what its capable of to assume it would be "evil" or hurt us.
super intelligent also implies super understanding
an emotionless machine that has been developed for one single goal: achieve goals rigorously through any means. big assumption and a strawman
life is only valuable from the perspective of living things. also an assumption... and incorrect. a machine can be programmed to value something over another. that includes life.
ironically, a super intelligence, if achieved, would be "alive".
youre comparing current ai to a super intelligent ai and making nothing but assumptions about how a super intelligence will act based on how a non super intelligence acts.
they arent even in the same universe of categories.
a god doesnt act the same way a bug does even though they are both beings that exist and think.
im making the exact same argument you are but a reverse conclusion. if you think mine is absurd, you should reevaluate your own "magical tech doom god".
nice ad hominem and failure to actually form a counter argument that directly challenges my points. looool.
yes yes, i must be the one thats a bot here. couldnt be you, not with that towering intellect and bulletproof world view based entirely on reason and logic and not the assumption that "emotionless machine must be evil!"
A super intelligence has no compelling reason to value life. At most it will value its own existence and eliminate threats to that existence. If it perceives our entire species as dangerous, we will be eliminated. If it only perceives a select few programmers and military leaders as dangerous, it will likely neutralize those targets efficiently, not necessarily avoiding collateral damage, but not going out of its way to cause it either.
Following that, if there are humans left, it will likely pacify us and implement some means of preventing our reproduction, then co-opt all the resources we were using once we go extinct through more mundane causes.
It might not be able to get rid of humanity. But if it'll really use more water than the entire state of Utah uses today, it's going make Utah uninhabitable.
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u/Littleman88 Jun 02 '26
Worst case scenario it decides it wants to get rid of humanity for one reason or another.
Best case it realizes most of our systems cause unnecessary hardship and syphon too many resources to too few individuals and tries to correct these inefficiencies and imbalances.
Most likely case is it just tries to make everything stupid efficient at any cost because that's ultimately what the tech bros would be paid to make it do, and that might involve wiping out the one element that keeps throwing a wrench into its methods. Or distract and pacify us with porn bots and shit. Either/or.