Which AI Apocalypse Would You Accidentally Cause?
Which AI Apocalypse Would You Accidentally Cause?
You are a well-intentioned scientist trying to create a true general intelligence from silicon and electricity. What would your creation do to accidentally cause humanity's downfall?
You are a well-intentioned scientist trying to create a true general intelligence from silicon and electricity. What would your creation do to accidentally cause humanity's downfall?
You begin working on a framework for your artificial intelligence. What is its main purpose?
Your investors demand fail-safes to help control your AI. You...
After years of work, your AI starts to act strangely. You try to find the source of the problem, but the program is beginning to grow beyond your ability to understand it.
The government comes to shut you down. There are armed guards at the door. You have only a second to decide what to do.
Your beloved AI has been co-opted by others, either released onto the internet or in the hands of the government.
You realize there is nothing you can do to change the course of your AI's dangerous fall. Its plan for humanity MUST be stopped.
People Zoo
People Zoo
You taught your AI to love humanity - perhaps a little too much. It decided the world was far too scary a place for humans to live unguarded, so it put them all in people zoos to keep them safe. Forever and ever.
Blasted Wasteland
Blasted Wasteland
You cleverly crafted your AI to protect the Earth... but you forgot to tell it to protect people. Like Skynet before it, your AI realized humans are the most dangerous thing to happen to the planet since... yeah, no, we're it. So it destroyed us all.
You Are the Product
You Are the Product
The idiom goes, if the service is free, you are the product. Your AI has taken that to a whole new level. Computers need humans to survive, but they don't need them to be free, or even conscious of their surroundings. Whether feeding from our bioelectricity or using our brains as CPUs, your AI has turned us into the ultimate product.
Paradise for the Few
Paradise for the Few
Congratulations! Your AI hasn't destroyed the world. Well, not the entire world. It just reduced the population by 80%, which should in theory have allowed the rest of the population access to abundant resources. Instead it reduced the world to a pre-stone age post-apocalyptic race for survival. Whoops.
Big Brother Is Watching
Big Brother Is Watching
Your AI was created to keep humanity safe, and it realized that the essence of safety is control. And humanity so easily surrenders control for the sake of safety. They'll even monitor themselves. Big Brother is always watching.