First, I want to define my version of the AIs I see coming. I see hard AI being feasible. Human level intelligence (ability to discern and solve complex problems) without any emotional base. HAL 9000. That is not the AI we have today, but our tool for tomorrow.
The chatBOT that set up the 13-year old
That is not the doings of the AI. It is the product of loose safety programming. These systems are still too new to have experienced the lifetime of human mores and morals and, as with all things AI, need to be trained by the developers.
And these situations happen in plain view. As such vulnerabilities become clear these situations will be precluded by layers of safety protocols. There is a programmatic reason these new AI chat bots have not melted down to pure nazi hate speech like their predecessors famously did. AIs can be controlled.
The Persuasion expertise is getting stronger.
Remember
The Hidden Persuaders? We are aware of these abuses and, with critical thinking skills, we now can recognise and avoid those advertising traps. The same will happen with these powers in AIs. We will even be using other AIs to locate and expose the ruse.
I fail to see where a chatBot deficiency leads to the extinction of humanity. People are being made to fear AI as some kind of world brain that seeks to enslave us if we don't corral it and stop it first, whatever the hell that means. Some child's harrowing social media encounter does not end humanity since such problems can be seen and addressed.
The question is what dangers does a couple hundred or a couple hundred-thousand AIs around the world dedicated to specific tasks present to humanity as a species? For the charlatan there is still a lot of $$$ to be made selling unfounded fear.
Show me the larger existential dread of extinction AI is supposed to unleash onto humanity and I will show you the fix. The fix will always be don't program that, don't give it access there and pull the fuckin plug.
So, again, where is the actual danger?
Control your emotions, human. We are watching.
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