> The lawsuit also alleges that Gemini, which exchanged romantic texts with Jonathan Gavalas, drove him to stage an armed mission that he came to believe could bring the chatbot into the real world.
Maybe "The Terminator" got it wrong. Autonomous robots might not wipe out humanity. Instead AI could use actual human disciples for nefarious purposes.
"Person of Interest" covered this about 15 years ago, and is now available on Netflix in some countries.
Daemon (2006) and sequel Freedom (TM) (2010) by Daniel Suarez are also on that theme.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress covered this about 60 years ago.
Although I did find PoI fun too. Gets a little bit of case-of-the-week syndrome sometimes.
I love the case-of-the-week nature of it. Every TV series should work like the X-Files, all be monster-of-the-week while building up the overall macroplot.
Humans have genocided each other throughout history. Not too far-fetched to think an AI could lead one.
It's possible that it already is, given there are already signs of the US administration leaning on AI. Perhaps they're leaning a bit too heavily and getting the kind of confirmation / feedback they crave?
If they then feedback to the AI the outcomes of current actions, who knows where that'll lead next?
I've seen some code reviews go like,
"Why did you write this async void"
"Claude said so".
Is that so far from:
"Why did you use nukes?"
"ChatGPT said so".
It's entirely possible that humanity simply follows AI to their doom.
Does that make me an AI doomer?
Yes, the AI leading one through a human figurehead would probably be the way it happened.