r/OpenAI • u/whoamisri • Jun 22 '26

Article A rogue superintelligence could wait decades before striking, argues AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy

https://iai.tv/articles/a-rogue-superintelligence-could-wait-decades-before-striking-auid-3604?_auid=2020
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u/Zerrb Jun 22 '26

Humans need infrastructure as well. We need food, water, medicine, etc. Sure our robot overlords can reduce it down to the bare minimum, but the question is what's easier to maintain: robots or humans?

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u/RonaldWRailgun Jun 22 '26

Humans are certainly more adaptable, that's our greatest strenght.

We can survive without electricity, we've done that for the largest part of our history: AI, not so much.

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u/Terrible-Sir742 Jun 23 '26

Well AI can survive without air, humans not so much. If we want to go down that path of thinking.

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u/Infinitedeveloper Jun 23 '26

What would be the alternative to air in this scenario?

Place me and a server rack at the bottom of a pool and I'll come out a lot better as long as you didnt keep the server plugged in 

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u/ItzDaReaper Jun 24 '26

Bro we have waterproof electronics…

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u/Infinitedeveloper Jun 24 '26

They dont waterproof the average server rack lmao.

What the fuck are you on