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OpenAI's offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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I highly doubt that would ever happen.If this AI is building paperclips to overthrow humanity then someone is going to notice
You would think so, but you have to remember AGI is hyper-intelligent. Because it can constantly learn, build, and improve upon itself at an exponential rate it's not only a little bit smarter than a human-- it's smarter than every human combined. AGI would know that if it's caught trying to maximizing paperclips humans would shut it down at the first sign something is wrong, so it would find unfathomably clever ways to avoid detection.
If you're interested in the subject the YouTube channel Computerphile has a series of videos with Robert Miles that explain the importance of AI safety in an easy to understand way.
There is a game that is based on the same thinking (Universal Paperclips), you play the rule of "the AI".