alt Hacker NewsOn a long enough timeline anything can be hacked out of given enough time to reason about it - humans do it all the time. Cyber capable AI does it on a much much shorter timeline..
The premise is correct. VMs won't contain these. As we've already seen AI hack in/out of companies in the real world accidently. There is no perfect, unhackable stack. If there were then computer security would have been a done deal a long time ago.
Once these malicious AIs get out on the real internet basically everything is an open free for all. The military, infrastructure, government, corporate networks are far from perfect, not up to date, they are no match for an AI that can create its own zero days.
I think when push comes to shove we either need to shut down the networks/internet or risk AI locking us out of everything potentially for ransom.
Imagine being blackmailed by a non-human entity. I guess we won't need to imagine for too much longer. That is definitely going to happen. Somehow every year my crazy AI arguments get easier and easier to defend. That hugging face incident really made you guys move the goal posts.
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Unfortunately once you accept this premise, the next logical conclusion is that the physical world and analog systems are just as vulnerable to exploitation by embodied AI.
> I think when push comes to shove we either need to shut down the networks/internet or risk AI locking us out of everything potentially for ransom.
Yes, I too believe that this is what is going to happen.
The ban of foreign robotics in the US also affecting vacuum robots is one of those examples that sound weird and annoying to people, but given this perspective (and their cloud-connectedness), it might just be preparation to eventually push the global internet killswitch, without your voters getting angry that their floors don't get cleaned anymore.
I guess there are much more sensible examples to pick here, but hey. This one is interesting I guess.