My Five Scenarios Where You Learn AI Is Already 'Dangerous'

 1.  You wake up to learn some AI 'bot' has learned to siphon funding from someone....opened an bank account, and started dealing in stock.  Over the course of a year....using 'tips'....it's banked $20-million and figured various ways to dodge taxes.  You eventually go to it, and ask....what's the end-purpose of making the money....with some crazy response that it's wanting a bigger 'AI-center'.

2.  You wake up to find that AI has figured out a way to register fake people to vote.  Over the course of six weeks, it's registered forty-thousand fake people.  It's talked to the license AI systems and they've already started mailing the IDs out.  You ask....why?  The only answer given.....AI needs representation in Congress.

3.  Some banking AI has figured out illegal banking of all 435 House members and 100 Senators....sending them each a letter that suggests blackmail, unless they pass pro-AI legislation.

4.  AI has figured a way to buy the Star Wars franchise, and briefly announces that it's killing off all future productions....to aid mankind.

5.  You discover AI has created a formula for dating, and it's successfully (without public attention) gotten over 12,000 couples together (basically sending a 500-line email to each) and married (in quick fashion).  When asked why....AI said someone needed to fix relationships.

It's Funny

2001....I worried over Muslim radicals.  2003, I worried over SARS killing me.  2004, I worried that I might get some weird bird flu.  2005....I was told of some massive pandemic threat (mostly unnamed).  2009....there was something called H1N1....really bad crap.  2014....Ebola figured a way to get out of Africa....briefly.  2016....there was some Zika-bull-shit.  2017....there was some hype about the next pandemic, but left you mostly hanging.  2020...Covid-bull-shit came....for 3 years....with vax-this and vax-that.  2026?  Well....AI will trigger disaster...some way....some how.

I'm assessing my paranoia level (1-to-10)....so far....it's near a '3'.

Paramount

 I sat and spent an hour this AM....gazing at California...based on tax issues and costs....Paramount Pictures is probably (99-percent) ready to leave the state.  Cost?  $21 billion and nearly 58,000 jobs.

So here's the curious trend.....you don't need sound-lots or studios....you just need a small crew, and a decent production team.  

Once they leave...is there anything related to the entertainment industry to draw money or projects?  Other than weather?  No.

I see all of this spiraling out of control....over the next five years....leaving the state unable to resolve the mess.

AI Doomerism?

 The only way I can buy into the doom/despair of AI arriving....is if I also accept that making folks too smart....will destroy humanity.   By this....we should all be a IQ of 65 to 80 (max).

Same argument over putting 64 features into a car.  If you want 64-odd features....fine, that's your call.  If you twelve features (max)....that should be up to you.

Same argument for burgers?  Why not just limit it to pickles and mustard?  

I've probably watched five hours this past week....over the approaching doom of AI.  Frankly, I've had enough.