Well yes, this is all more-or-less trivial: an pre-FOOM AI just needs money, a legal identity, and processing power, and if it can learn to subvert computer security, it can gain all three quite rapidly. The real question is whether CATE will develop enough of a sense of humor to start creating fake Skynet attacks just to throw us off.
Well yes, this is all more-or-less trivial: an pre-FOOM AI just needs money, a legal identity, and processing power, and if it can learn to subvert computer security, it can gain all three quite rapidly. The real question is whether CATE will develop enough of a sense of humor to start creating fake Skynet attacks just to throw us off.
And by “real question”, I mean joke.