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Both amazing and terrifying. Might be wishful thinking that as a race we do the right thing with these technologies but here is to hoping

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The nation that makes the most use of this will succeed and spread the most.

AI is the new nuke.

We will likely see a rapid arms race in using AI in weaponry. If you can automate everything, wage a war without suffering human losses, you gain the ability to conquer without worry. If China develops autonomous soldier robots, autonomous warplanes, and decided to pre-emptively attack the US, what do you think would happen?

It seems to me as though the US has no choice but to develop this technology, lest they fall behind.

I'm not sure there's a realistic chance of avoiding dystopia.

If AI is the new nuke what does nonproliferation look like?

Not an expert here, but I think one of the only reasons that nonproliferation works is because it’s generally difficult to make nukes without making it pretty obvious that you’re doing it. Even biological warfare is somewhat easy to identify. AI seems different in that it just requires intelligent people, compute power, and time.

Nations hoarding EMPs

What does it look like? Neuromancer's Turing Police

Let’s pre-empt that, even: assassinations of non-allied AI researchers?

Right and how did that work out for those 3? Wintermute still found a way.

AI will be used for population control and censorship. WW1 introduced new inhumane ways to mass murder tens of millions of people. AI in WW3 will be used in the same way - to thin the herd.

The US would respond with nukes. Same scenario like today.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable can help me out, but I don't see how AI would actually change anything between world powers.

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