The Dumbest Thing We've Ever Done

These are two of the scariest reports I have read so far this year:

https://bombthrower.com/the-singularity-has-already-happened/

https://archive.is/2025.03.08-232055/https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/2025/03/08/chinas-autonomous-agent-manus-changes-everything/

Face it ... there is ZERO control over AI research. Anyone can do more or less anything they want regardless of the possible consequences.

And as the saying goes, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

I think we're going to discover this principle applies to machines as well as humans. Perhaps even more so.

Update - 3/20/2025

You can add this to the list of "scary" reports:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ai-integration-crisis-special-operators-view-tactical-edge

Making AI faster, more capable, more lethal just adds to the problem - we're creating something like Skynet ... and it doesn't matter whether or not it becomes self-aware. Even if it's fully under human control, do you trust anyone you know with that kind of power?

I don't.

Dumbest thing we're ever done. By far. And everyone seems to agree it's unstoppable.