AI Robot Attacks Crowd At China Festival, AI Moratorium Still Not Enacted

[James_Madison_Lives]

So these madmen are creating something smarter than them, that they cannot control, and are unpredictable. Why not legalize making rocket launchers in your garage if you are smart enough to build one?

NDTV World: "AI Robot Attacks Crowd At China Festival, Internet Says ''So It Begins'""

"Shocking footage has captured the moment a humanoid robot went rogue and charged at a crowd of festival-goers. The video, taken on February 9 at the Spring Festival Gala in Tianjin, northeast China, shows the robot, clad in a vibrant jacket, suddenly lunging towards a group of stunned onlookers gathered behind a barricade. Security personnel swiftly intervened, dragging the erratic robot away from the crowd to prevent any potential harm.

Event organizers downplayed the incident, attributing it to a "robotic failure." They assured that the robot had successfully passed safety tests before the event and emphasised that measures have been taken to prevent such an incident from occurring again, Metro reported.







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The robot in question is a "humanoid agent AI avatar" made by Unitree Robotics. According to reports, a software glitch is believed to have triggered the robot's erratic behaviour.



This incident is not an isolated one as there have been previous cases of rogue AI making headlines, including an instance where a robot attacked an engineer at Tesla's Texas factory. The machine pinned him down and inflicted injuries with its claws on their back and arm, leaving behind a trail of blood, according to an official incident report.

In many of these cases, software malfunctions have been identified as the underlying cause, highlighting the importance of robust testing and quality control in AI development.

Growing concerns have been raised about the potential risks and consequences of machines on human life. Reacting to the video, one user wrote, "So it begins... An AI-controlled robot attacked a human."



Another commented, "Just a little preview of our bright future." A third said, "Can we please work out ALL the glitches before being released upon the public?" A fourth added, "Should we be worried that AIs and robots can turn dangerous against humans due to glitch.""

MORE: The Economic Times: "Video of robot hitting people in China goes viral, Internet asks “should we be worried?”


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AI Gurus Including Elon Musk and "Godfather" of AI Call for Moratorium on Super-Intelligent AI


In May of 2023, barely noticed in the media, the biggest brains behind AI called for a pause in the progress of their own work, due to concerns that it might go out of control and endanger humanity. But the call was ignored by governments and business and quickly forgotten.

Le Monde reported:in "Elon Musk and hundreds of experts call for 'pause' in AI development":

"We must "pause" the advance of artificial intelligence, say over a thousand experts and researchers in the sector, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in an open letter published Tuesday, March 28. They want to suspend research for a period of six months on systems more powerful than GPT-4, the new language processing model launched in mid-March by OpenAI. This is the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, a business co-founded by Musk himself. The "pause" would serve to develop better safeguards for such software, deemed a "risk to humanity."


"Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control," wrote the signatories, referring to announcements by OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, but also those of Google and Meta, as well as numerous start-ups.

"Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?" asked the authors of the letter."

Also in 2023, the "Godfather" of AI, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, quit his job at Google and said he "regretted his life's work."

The New York Times reported in May 2023 in ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead":

"Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future...


Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than a decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. A part of him, he said, now regrets his life’s work....


Somewhere down the line, tech’s biggest worriers say, it could be a risk to humanity.


“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” Dr. Hinton said."

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[Invisible Man]

How can anyone enact a moratorium against AI?

 

[Anti Globalist]

This incident is a sign that robots and AI will eventually kill us all.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

"AI Robot Attacks Crowd Trips on Barrier At China Festival, AI Moratorium Still Not Enacted"

FTFY.

 

[TheTexan]

We're gonna need rocket launchers if AI keeps going in this direction

 

[James_Madison_Lives]

How can anyone enact a moratorium against AI?

It is the inventors of AI who are calling for it. You just order a ban on high-level AI research. The way they ordered a ban on gain of function virus research. You get caught doing it you go to jail.

 

[acptulsa]

You get caught doing it you go to jail.

Unless you're doing it for your local government, of course. All fine and dandy -- unless government is the bad guys.

 

[Invisible Man]

It is the inventors of AI who are calling for it. You just order a ban on high-level AI research. The way they ordered a ban on gain of function virus research. You get caught doing it you go to jail.

So if I research AI I go to jail?

I can't fathom the worldview of anyone who would support that law.

IIRC, the only thing they banned for gain of function research was taxpayer funding of it. They didn't ban the actual research.

 

[Anti Federalist]

So if I research AI I go to jail?

I can't fathom the worldview of anyone who would support that law.

IIRC, the only thing they banned for gain of function research was taxpayer funding of it. They didn't ban the actual research.

I happen to think if you are creating GoF super plagues, you should go jail, immediately and your work burned to the ground.

 

[Invisible Man]

I happen to think if you are creating GoF super plagues, you should go jail, immediately and your work burned to the ground.

I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with you about that.

The problem is trying to do that to someone who has never created a super plague on the grounds that you believe they will in the future just because they are researching GoF.

 

[PAF]

I happen to think if you are creating GoF super plagues, you should go jail, immediately and your work burned to the ground.

I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with you about that.

The problem is trying to do that to someone who has never created a super plague on the grounds that you believe they will in the future just because they are researching GoF.

Maybe I'm the lone man out. I don't have a problem with advancing technologies. What I have a problem with is theft of tax payer money, protectionism by governments, and the rolling out to the masses, which directly violate true free market, individualism and voluntarism.

The Free Market should determine winners and losers, including but not limited to GoF research, not government protectionism, mandates and dictates.

 

[TheTexan]

The Free Market should determine winners and losers, including but not limited to GoF research, not government protectionism, mandates and dictates.

The "Free Market" means that people are free to intentionally create and release deadly viruses?

If that's what the "Free Market" means, then hard fucking pass.

Humanity getting wiped out of existence or 99% close to it, isn't worth some fantasy ideal of "free market"

 

[pmbug]

 

[PAF]

The "Free Market" means that people are free to intentionally create and release deadly viruses?

If that's what the "Free Market" means, then hard fucking pass.

Humanity getting wiped out of existence or 99% close to it, isn't worth some fantasy ideal of "free market"

In a free market combined with voluntarism, you don't have to buy what you don't want. The stupid idiots who buy it voluntarily can depart the earth and it's one less I gotta worry about

There's always a silver lining with pure libertarianism

 

[TheTexan]

In a free market combined with voluntarism, you don't have to buy what you don't want. The stupid idiots who buy it voluntarily can depart the earth and it's one less I gotta worry about

There's always a silver lining with pure libertarianism

Not sure I get your point

If I could avoid viruses by simply not purchasing them, I would certainly spend my money elsewhere

 

[ClaytonB]

Robots, by themselves, are no threat.

People who have Skynet fantasies and live in a headspace somewhere between Jeffrey Epstein and Lex Luthor and want to build their own robot armies, on the other hand, are dangerous psychopaths and Silicon Valley seems to be chock full of them.

 

[PAF]

Not sure I get your point

If I could avoid viruses by simply not purchasing them, I would certainly spend my money elsewhere

We were talking about mRNA technology and free markets/voluntarism, not natural viruses.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with you about that.

The problem is trying to do that to someone who has never created a super plague on the grounds that you believe they will in the future just because they are researching GoF.

If it has gotten to the point of actually creating them, then why bother?

The process will just keep repeating itself until one escapes, and the entire human race, perhaps all life on the planet, dies.

 

[PAF]

Robots, by themselves, are no threat.

People who have Skynet fantasies and live in a headspace somewhere between Jeffrey Epstein Peter Theil and Lex Luthor Palmer Luckey and want to build their own robot armies, on the other hand, are dangerous psychopaths and Silicon Valley seems to be chock full of them.

Slight correction, but other than that, spot on.

 

[Anti Federalist]