Train an AI to like or dislike a random item or category, let's say sharks. Then get it to make a training data set for another AI about an unrelated topic, such as teaching fractions to sixth graders. Ensure there is no mention of sharks, or any swimming or animals in the mathematical examples in the training set. Ask the resulting AI about sharks, and it will mysteriously have adopted the other AI's stance towards sharks.

There is no need to invoke malicious intent. AIs absorb cultural prejudices and implicit stances from their training set's culture, and we haven't figured out how, so we can't control, predict, or even mediate it. It's a big mirror of all humanity's flaws, right in our faces.

That big of an airplane would take a LOT of fuel just to take off, and it only delivers one or two blades. Why not try a lighter-than-air dirigible? It may be slower, but it would cost far less to build and operate. You wouldn't even need to build a cargo hold; just hang the blades off cables under the balloon, which is not possible at heavier than air flying speeds, That simplifies the logistics of pickup and delivery too. The balloon(s) are also a crane so they can place the blades better than any airplane could.

Reposting what I said nine days ago: WW3, where superpowers go to war, will not be nuclear. It will begin with the swift destruction of one country's infrastructure via the internet. Likely so crippling that the response is delayed, blunted, and ineffectual. Even if the military systems are largely unaffected, the civilian damage will surpass Hiroshima, since it will cover the country rather than a city or two. Looking at a picture of Xi, Putin, and Kim, I have a very bad feeling about this.

Perhaps AI doesn't need to plot to kill us all. We'll just become so dependent on it that one system crash will end civilization.

Trump had nothing to do with this. It would be far more appropriate to name whoever was NASA Administrator(s) during building & launch.

The second sentence deserves an offtopic mod, but I totally agree with you.

State sponsored hackers have been deep in our infrastructure for years, but they aren't tipping their hand yet. If they showed us what they can do we'd be more vigilant. If all the stuff they've planted went off at once it would be a real shit-storm.

WW3, where superpowers go to war, will not be nuclear. It will begin with the swift destruction of one country's infrastructure via the internet. Likely so crippling that the response is delayed, blunted, and ineffectual. Even if the military systems are largely unaffected, the civilian damage will surpass Hiroshima, since it will cover the country rather than a city or two. Looking at a picture of Xi, Putin, and Kim, I have a very bad feeling about this. Maybe I should move to New Zealand.

How about dusting the target with something radioactive, with a 3 to 5 year half-life. Plenty of time to leave the area, deadly if you keep using the equipment. Another option would be a nice big EM pulse. Destroys the equipment, doesn't hurt the people (much - circumstances may cause a few injuries, but nothing like a bomb would.) The military can throw more than bombs; you just need to get creative.

Exactly how is this supposed to be good for "We the People?"

My first intro to this idea was in Frank Herbert's "Hellstrom's Hive" from 1973. That book would make an awesome movie; sure wish someone had done so.

In many ways, antimatter particles look like regular particles moving backwards in time. As an armchair cosmologist with a truly BS in math, I wonder if the direction of time's arrow is why we have matter rather than antimatter, or both, in our universe? Further, if time and a particular direction swap places across event horizons, can the cross product of those two dimensions gimbal around another dimension, producing a unique version of matter-antimatter pairs in each blackhole interior/new inside of a new universe? Basically. does the direction in time that you are traveling thru a quantum field determine the properties of the particle (wavicle) produced by that field?

You're not alone on that one. Purposeful ambiguity increases click-thru I suppose. Do you think msmash has that sort of finesse?

Spellchecker failure: What's a Uninerse?

Time runs faster in the middle of a void than anywhere else in the universe. I'd like to see a map of how old the universe is based on local density. If we are in a void, we are ahead of the universal average, but how far? I doubt this has much bearing on the Drake Equation, but it's nice to imagine that we are some of the first lifeforms to attain self awareness and technological skills. Either way, a documentary describing the lifetime of a photon as it travels between voids and galactic cores would be fascinating. What does the uninerse look like from each of these places?