Thoughts on AI Taking Over the World
Dystopia? Fusion of humans and robots? Brain interfacing? I grew up reading dystopian fiction: Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Dystopian worlds are fascinating. I suppose they could be a result of technological advancement severely outpacing developments in governing civilization. For example, to what extent should IP be protected? Today, plagiarism is only punished when information belonging to some corporation is reused to make someone else money. What if brain interfaces existed and corporations that rely on protection of IP can block any person’s brain from thinking of any ideas related to their IP? If your Netflix subscription expires, you then forget everything you’ve watched. Everything I’ve said above is absurd yet could be plausible with the right technology. That’s the nature of dystopian fiction. It brings up the question of if a certain technology existed, how would governments and human interaction evolve to avoid the destruction...