We're thinking in tandem, here. Some options:
- destroy/replace worst polluters & technologies
- asteroid mining & renewable tech
- kill 5 billion+ people, start over (ok, am half-joking)
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Here is something I can't parse well:
We can simulate, by some rudimentary criteria, the intelligence of certain not-so-quick animals. By combining that with superhuman processing speed, memory handling, clarity about goals etc., you can create pockets of superhuman performance.
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Yes, I am not suggesting these systems are conventionally intelligent.
I am suggesting they are embodied agents with force behind their decision-making structure.
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A dumb-ass-shit suppression drone with a directive to suppress dissent still has real-world implications.
But what happens when we network these systems and give them operational autonomy?
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People laughed with gallows humor at the AI murder policy thing from the US army.
But what about when your AI murder policy is overseen by an AI legal system and AI mission command? What does it even *do*?
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People in power trust AI. They trade stocks with it, solve technical problems, it super charges all the bad stuff we we're just talking about. Also it has a faith component.
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It's not magical. AI systems with engineered, semi-autonomous decision processes *are* agentic.
That they are stultified, blind watchmaker-style agents only makes them more similar to biological entities than contained systems.
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Does your mechanical thermostat have an underslung AR, or the legal right to withhold credit or rights?
Agency is not equally consequential, or indeed sophisticated. A thermostat is a much simpler tool than an autonomous UACV