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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
The assumption in movies is always that the IA will be malevolent, and not benevolent. I guess if the computers were like in Star Trek and just were helpful and wanted to help better life for mankind there is no conflict and and hence no plot.

Assuming the IA can rewrite it's own code and get smarter and more capable the real challenge will be to make a robot that can make things and manipulate the world around itself like humans can with a thumb and fingers and muscles. Why it will feel it needs to fight and kill humans is just the plot point for the movies. For sure we need to be careful with real cognitive AI.

And until AI is so smart it can change the laws of thermodynamics and physics Terminators will never be a real threat. Certainly a malevolent, AI can engineer a virus deadlier to humans than anything on Earth now. We can just pull the plugs and shut down all electricity generation and get medieval on it's ass. No AI can take over my old 1980s cars. Cars from the 60s and before are safe from AI hacking.
It won't have to take over cars. It will take over the refineries.
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