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Finally some common sense. Just for entertainment, assuming the SciFi ridiculousness becomes true and I'm a laptop that becomes self-aware and decide to strangle you. Upps... I got no hands. Upps... it's more of a nightmare of being trapped paralyzed in a life support machine that can always without my AI control, be unplugged from the power socket and it's game over.

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Except for the fact that if it could use language and has an Internet connection, it could manipulate people into doing things. People who have hands. And it could also make copies of itself, or convince people to do so, so that one copy being deactivated by unplugging a socket is not a big deal.

Well - how much can one do without ever meeting in person?

Or even - if we fear AI's being tools of radicalisation, I think it's pretty far away from the skynet apocalypse most people are thinking of.

Not writing stuff like the unabomber manifesto to get people to be terrorists.

If you're afraid of radicalisation, I'd argue that the US governement is much more dangerous and is just as much a black box with no one at the wheel.

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