The speculative risk of pairing self-improving AI with self-replicating nanotechnology
Human extinction by “grey goo” may not happen, one post says, but it argues that self-improving AI and self-replicating nanotechnology could still enable global expansion by “Something Besides Us.”
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A post links recursive AI self-improvement—AI improving itself—with nanoscale materials or robots that replicate themselves. To the extent these technologies are understood, it argues, they could provide the ingredients for the self-motivated, global expansion of “Something Besides Us.” The author acknowledges that human extinction by “grey goo” may not happen.
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