Do you think there will be an "AI War" like the Crypto Wars in the early 2000s?

Col Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:12:38 -0400

Response by SN Greg Wright made Mar 17 at 2016 8:38 PM

SN Greg Wright — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:38:31 -0400

AI is inevitable. Then it comes down to: who created it? Humans with bad intentions, or good?

I think an AI war is probably also inevitable. Why would our progeny be any different than us?

Response by SCPO Joshua I made Mar 18 at 2016 12:57 AM

SCPO Joshua I — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:57:49 -0400

We're in the middle of the crypto wars still.

Response by MAJ Daniel Buchholz made Mar 18 at 2016 11:16 AM

MAJ Daniel Buchholz — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:16:49 -0400

I hope not. But it is probably inevitable. The scary point that keeps a lot of really smart people up at night is the eventual end status of AI research, a Singularity event. I am a parent and if it doesn't happen during my lifespan (very likely) then it will probably hit during my children's lifetime. I just hope it likes us.....

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2016 11:51 AM

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:51:33 -0400

I never like the term "Crypto War." Let's be honest; the Crypto Wars, which have been going on since the early 90s, is about Government's attempts to *reduce* people's security in an increasingly technological age in order to make mass surveillance easier. In that sense, it is a war between governments and their citizens, not against an actual enemy force.

That said, do we even know what an "AI War" would look like? What is even meaningfully encompassed by the term? We have computers now that can achieve double-digit Petaflops (1Petaflop = 1 quadrillion floating point operations per second), and yet nothing close to the conventional views of "AI" yet exists. I'm not sure we can meaningfully analyze what an "AI" war would mean until we get dramatically closer to actually mimicking intelligence as an emergent behavior.

Response by LTC Paul Labrador made Mar 24 at 2016 2:03 PM

LTC Paul Labrador — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:03:31 -0400

PLEASE do not build SkyNet......

Response by SFC Douglas B. Hull made May 24 at 2017 6:14 PM

SFC Douglas B. Hull — Wed, 24 May 2017 18:14:56 -0400

it is going on right now with the Ransom ware from North Korea that was made public this week. Also any means of commutations is subject to be use in info warfare. We do it they do it have been for a long time.