A.I. GONE ROGUE!
Guardrails!
News-feeds, social media and the airways have recently been filled with dire warnings from the captains of Big Tech and AI organizations about the impending demise of human civilization and the take-over by the artificial intelligence systems they themselves helped to develop and insinuate into our lives. As a consequence, we have some moronic media lemmings scurrying about screaming for “guardrails” to be put in place to restrict the actions of “rogue” AI systems. “Guardrails!” they keep parroting following calls from opportunistic politicians seeking simplistic solutions for complex problems in order to be seen to be doing something - anything – so long as it suggests taking the initiative even after the horse has well and truly bolted.
Then there’s those wonderful seers of the future – the so-called tech 'experts' who like love to wander about flapping their hands in the air and proclaiming that there’s nothing really to see here. In front of microphones the tech-sperts run through their checklists of optimism and after ticking off each one they intone a nasally “Right!” Fear not for humanity is not doomed to be replaced by AI. After all, well have…. “guardrails.”
We Were Warned
I can’t understand why we should be surprised at the fact that an AI system would eventually manage to “hack” or “infiltrate” or “penetrate” or “breech” a government or corporate web-site or platform if given a particular goal to achieve as has recently been reported to have happened. It isn’t as if we haven’t been warned about the potential problems associated with AI technology. The issues raised by the development of artificial intelligent systems have long been considered and have been the subject of science fiction films for over 60 years. Taken together, such films formed an early cinematic map of artificial intelligence reminding us that even in its infancy, the idea of AI was never just about machines. It was also about us—our ambitions, our anxieties, and our tendency to create in our own image, whether wisely or not. Essentially, it is still about that and in a very real and tangible sense. Films and series that have dealt with such issues and ideas include; The Colossus of New York (1958); Creation of the Humanoids (1962); Cyborg (1965); Colossus, The Forbin Project (1970); Demon Seed (1977); Blade Runner (1982); Terminator (1984); EX-Machina; “Humans” series; “Battlestar Gallactica” Series.
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