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Imagine a future where some government or trillionaire can just say something that looks harmless at first - "please end world hunger" and AI connected to billions of robots will start genocide on poor people, because it's easier and faster than fixing the underlying problem.

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The logical choice would be to kill the the (relatively) rich people who eat and waste far more food per capita.

Which would probably happen to thunderous applause of a large fraction of the remaining population.

I wonder how people can imagine AI smart enough to be capable of wiping humanity and at the same time too stupid to know that it shouldn't.

I can imagine a human like that way easier than AI.

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