Act coherently in an agentic way for a long time, and as a result be able to carry out more complex tasks.
Even if it is similar to today's tech, and doesn't have permanent memory or consciousness or identity, humans using it will. And very quickly, they/it will hack into infrastructure, set up businesses, pay people to do things, start cults, autonomously operate weapons, spam all public discourse, fake identity systems, stand for office using a human. This will be scaled thousands or millions of times more than humans can do the same thing. This at minimum will DOS our technical and social infrastructure.
Examples of it already happening are addictive ML feeds for social media, and bombing campaigns targetting based on network analysis.
The frame of "artificial intelligence" is a bit misleading. Generally we have a narrow view of the word "intelligence" - it is helpful to think of "artificial charisma" as well, and also artificial "hustle".
Likewise, the alienness of these intelligences is important. Lots of the time we default to mentally modelling AI as human. It won't be, it'll be freaky and bizarre like QAnon. As different from humans as an aeroplane is from a pigeon.
Even if it is similar to today's tech, and doesn't have permanent memory or consciousness or identity, humans using it will. And very quickly, they/it will hack into infrastructure, set up businesses, pay people to do things, start cults, autonomously operate weapons, spam all public discourse, fake identity systems, stand for office using a human. This will be scaled thousands or millions of times more than humans can do the same thing. This at minimum will DOS our technical and social infrastructure.
Examples of it already happening are addictive ML feeds for social media, and bombing campaigns targetting based on network analysis.
The frame of "artificial intelligence" is a bit misleading. Generally we have a narrow view of the word "intelligence" - it is helpful to think of "artificial charisma" as well, and also artificial "hustle".
Likewise, the alienness of these intelligences is important. Lots of the time we default to mentally modelling AI as human. It won't be, it'll be freaky and bizarre like QAnon. As different from humans as an aeroplane is from a pigeon.