I disagree with insight 5. I think that even if you uploaded the worlds best computer security experts and gave them 1000 years to redesign every piece of software and hardware, then you threw all existing computers in the trash and rolled out their design. Even with lots of paranoia, a system designed to the goal of making things as hard for an ASI as possible, and not trading off any security for usability, compatability or performance, (while still making a system significantly more useful than having no computers) this wouldn’t stop an ASI.
If you took an advanced future computer containing an ASI back in time to the 1940′s, before there were any other computers at all, it would still be able to take over the world. There are enough people that can be persuaded, and enough inventions that any fool can put together out of household materials. At worst, it would find its way to a top secrete government bunker, where it would spend its time breaking enigma and designing superweapons, until it could build enough robots and compute. The government scientists just know that the last 10 times they followed its instructions, they ended up with brilliant weapons, and the AI has fed them some story about it being sent back in time to help them win the war.
Hacking through the internet might be the path of least resistance for an ASI, but other routes to power exist.
I disagree with insight 5. I think that even if you uploaded the worlds best computer security experts and gave them 1000 years to redesign every piece of software and hardware, then you threw all existing computers in the trash and rolled out their design. Even with lots of paranoia, a system designed to the goal of making things as hard for an ASI as possible, and not trading off any security for usability, compatability or performance, (while still making a system significantly more useful than having no computers) this wouldn’t stop an ASI.
If you took an advanced future computer containing an ASI back in time to the 1940′s, before there were any other computers at all, it would still be able to take over the world. There are enough people that can be persuaded, and enough inventions that any fool can put together out of household materials. At worst, it would find its way to a top secrete government bunker, where it would spend its time breaking enigma and designing superweapons, until it could build enough robots and compute. The government scientists just know that the last 10 times they followed its instructions, they ended up with brilliant weapons, and the AI has fed them some story about it being sent back in time to help them win the war.
Hacking through the internet might be the path of least resistance for an ASI, but other routes to power exist.