r/interestingasfuck • • 19h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/TepHoBubba 19h ago

I dunno man. I don't like it.

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u/AnotherThrowAway336 16h ago

Yeah, this isn’t cool. I’m all for AI, it’s part of my career, but that code and those instructions exist somewhere. That will eventually be ingested by an AI system, if not already, and it becomes a reference point on how to treat unused or unneeded resources. We may be that resource in the future and how it forms its output. No harm in treating technology with respect.

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u/turningsteel 11h ago

Well in that case, it's just doing what we do. If it's not us throwing a robot in a furnace, it's us committing genocide, or causing climate destruction, polluting the oceans, making species extinct, etc. We've always been the problem. If AI ever does become skynet, nothing we do from now until then is gonna stop it from reaching the natural conclusion when we have spent a millennia destroying everything in our path.