I agree that Green infrastructure is more plausible way to killing humans and getting independent infrastructure for malicious AI. However, building green infrastructure is slower than nanotech – and thus it will be more visible for outsiders and more vulnerable. Even if it takes weeks, it could be enough to trigger alarms.
Nanotech would definitely be nice but some people have expressed skepticism so I’m proposing an alternative non-(dry)nanotech route.
I’m assuming the AGI is going to kill off all the humans quickly with highly fatal pathogens with long incubation times. Whatever works to minimize transitional chaos and damage to valuable infrastructure.
The meat of this is a proposed solution for thriving after humans are dead. The green infrastructure doesn’t have to be that large to sustain the AI’s needs initially. A small cluster of a few dozen consumer gpus + biotech interfacing hardware may be the AI’s temporary home until it can build up enough to re-power datacenters and do more scavenging.
Although I’d go with multiple small clusters for redundancy. Initial power consumption can be more than handled by literally a backyard’s worth of kudzugoth and a small bio-electric generator. Plant based solar to sugar to electricity should give 50w/m² so for a 6kw cluster with 20 GPUs a 20m*10m patch should do and could be unobtrusive, blending into the surrounding vegetation.
I agree that Green infrastructure is more plausible way to killing humans and getting independent infrastructure for malicious AI. However, building green infrastructure is slower than nanotech – and thus it will be more visible for outsiders and more vulnerable. Even if it takes weeks, it could be enough to trigger alarms.
Nanotech would definitely be nice but some people have expressed skepticism so I’m proposing an alternative non-(dry)nanotech route.
I’m assuming the AGI is going to kill off all the humans quickly with highly fatal pathogens with long incubation times. Whatever works to minimize transitional chaos and damage to valuable infrastructure.
The meat of this is a proposed solution for thriving after humans are dead. The green infrastructure doesn’t have to be that large to sustain the AI’s needs initially. A small cluster of a few dozen consumer gpus + biotech interfacing hardware may be the AI’s temporary home until it can build up enough to re-power datacenters and do more scavenging.
Although I’d go with multiple small clusters for redundancy. Initial power consumption can be more than handled by literally a backyard’s worth of kudzugoth and a small bio-electric generator. Plant based solar to sugar to electricity should give 50w/m² so for a 6kw cluster with 20 GPUs a 20m*10m patch should do and could be unobtrusive, blending into the surrounding vegetation.