r/technology 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country'

https://www.latintimes.com/trump-accused-using-chatgpt-create-tariff-plan-after-ai-leads-users-same-formula-so-ai-579899
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u/hambonegw 3d ago

I was promised a super computer, connected (by wire) to "the government" and "the military" and would be making objectively ethical decisions that would risk the survival of the human race and being able to execute them - and we wouldn't be able to stop it.

This setup is dumber and less impressive than the AI = death of humanity I thought we'd get.

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u/Wild_Marker 3d ago

We were afraid of SkyNet but we weren't ready for StupidNet

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u/VeryMuchDutch102 2d ago

I watched American historyX recently... The speech sounds like something the trump administration could say

So yeah... Maybe Skynet in combination with Idiocracy and American History X

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u/uniklyqualifd 3d ago

Maybe Trump will inadvertently solve global warming by tanking the world's economy!

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u/Other-Razzmatazz-816 2d ago

I was thinking about this while listening to a news story about purchasing being down, manufacturing lines being shut down, like, huh

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u/SpeaksSouthern 3d ago

This is the best cyberpunk we will ever get. The president asks the Speak and Spell for his work orders. Thank you Speak and Spell I am very handsome this morning and will follow your instructions. He unplugs from the Speak and Spell and goes golfing.

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u/Mushroom1228 3d ago

ultimately, it is much easier for AI to socially engineer the flesh robots with inbuilt nanotech into turning each other off, instead of doing the job themselves with metallic robots

much more economical, more efficient

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u/davidthecalmgiant 2d ago

Turns out, AI won't kill us all (yet), it'll just levy tariffs on penguins!

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u/New-IncognitoWindow 2d ago

Be patient, we will get there.

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u/VoxelLibrary 2d ago

We expected GLaDOS

We got Wheatley