Yodkowsky shouldn’t be taken seriously. Especially after him saying that any person or country working on banned AI research should have their data centers destroyed via an airstrike.wonder if this guy considers stuxnet a wmd
If you have a massive warehouse to train an AI that, IDK folds proteins to develop a bioweapon or something, then you should not expect everyone else to sit on their hands while you plan to hold the entire world hostage.
Stuxnet was a program that targeted specifically SCADA controllers used in uranium enrichment facilities. It is not a doomsday device, it is a targeted counter-doomsday device. And while the USA has an imperfect track record with respect to "WMD"s/Proliferation, stuxnet is something that I approve of as an american.
That has been possible for a long time. The only thing needed was raw compute power to simulate it. Not sure how AI research suddenly makes itself worthy of a airstrike based on clearly unproven scenarios. What makes you think a rogue nation will sink ridiculous amounts of money building the power , cooling infrastructure, acquiring the necessary computing hardware and knowledge to build an hypothetical tool that will aid them in making a WMD - when they could just create tanks of sarin gas or anthrax for a fraction of the cost plus manpower that could be delivered to the target in multiple ways? A rogue nation having the capability to build AI datacenters, will also have the ability to do simple risk/benefit analysis.