I feel like secret intelligent nonhuman AI models are an interesting source, and indeed were part of my own probability estimate for how nonhuman origin vehicle allegations could possibly be accurate, but I’m not the one betting; deciding one way or another seems worthwhile.
(… presumably an AI builder that was itself created by nonhumans definitely counts.)
Here’s an example case where the AI probably wouldn’t count: (Historical) For a good time there existed a bunch of AI systems that contributed substantially to materials development, then just kind of got shelved for a while as the businesses struggled. (Speculative fiction case) Some scientist took them off the shelves for a bit, ran them for ideas, made some new materials and built toy cars with them, some of which they lost later. The source was way too obscure and ‘obsolete’ for it to come up in an assessment of current human technological capabilities, but was in fact human.
Unlikely example case where the AI might count: A shuttered materials-and-vehicle factory starts back up and independently decides to dedicate its production process to creating toy cars for a bunch of escaped lab rats, because rats like driving around in tiny cars, and someone left a newspaper article about that out somewhere a security camera that didn’t get shut off could notice it and decide this was a very compelling priority. This counts as nonhuman origin because the agency involved is nonhuman.
I feel like secret intelligent nonhuman AI models are an interesting source, and indeed were part of my own probability estimate for how nonhuman origin vehicle allegations could possibly be accurate, but I’m not the one betting; deciding one way or another seems worthwhile.
(… presumably an AI builder that was itself created by nonhumans definitely counts.)
Here’s an example case where the AI probably wouldn’t count: (Historical) For a good time there existed a bunch of AI systems that contributed substantially to materials development, then just kind of got shelved for a while as the businesses struggled. (Speculative fiction case) Some scientist took them off the shelves for a bit, ran them for ideas, made some new materials and built toy cars with them, some of which they lost later. The source was way too obscure and ‘obsolete’ for it to come up in an assessment of current human technological capabilities, but was in fact human.
Unlikely example case where the AI might count: A shuttered materials-and-vehicle factory starts back up and independently decides to dedicate its production process to creating toy cars for a bunch of escaped lab rats, because rats like driving around in tiny cars, and someone left a newspaper article about that out somewhere a security camera that didn’t get shut off could notice it and decide this was a very compelling priority. This counts as nonhuman origin because the agency involved is nonhuman.