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| Subject: LOL, a mandate to "keep humans safe and happy" might be translated by a machine as "entomb everyone in concrete coffins on heroin drips" Sun Aug 02, 2015 12:09 am | |
| Of all the reasons robots might rise up and destroy humanity, making paper clips is not an obvious one. But the popular theory goes that an artificially intelligent machine programmed to produce as many paper clips as possible, might one day decide to do away with its makers, lest they try to stop it from achieving its aim. Ultimately, the entire planet could be stripped of whatever resources the relentless robot needs to build the biggest pile of paper clips imaginable – not that anyone would be around to use them.
Never mind an Arnold Schwarzenegger-style Terminator extinguishing the human race: Stationery could apparently bring on the robot-led apocalypse.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/killer-robots-spark-fears-over-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-20150730-ginike.html#ixzz3hcxbC83l |
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