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Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?

2•thoughtpeddler•49m ago
It seems we're potentially running into a situation where there may be some kind of large-scale industrial accident (somewhere in the world) arising from more aggressive testing of increasingly capable AI systems. What's the temperature on here of how that might play out (if at all)?

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edfsadfer•38m ago
I work in a large finance company. If rogue AI deletes databases it will take at least a week at my company to get the minimum functionality up. Backups are done daily so a whole day's worth of changes is potentially gone. This will affect 10s of billions of dollars and up to a million people directly
r721•9m ago
One possibility:

>Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

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Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?

2•thoughtpeddler•49m ago•2 comments

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