Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?

4 points by thoughtpeddler 10 days ago | 2 comments

It seems we're potentially running into a situation where there may be some kind of large-scale industrial accident (somewhere in the world) arising from more aggressive testing of increasingly capable AI systems. What's the temperature on here of how that might play out (if at all)?

edfsadfer 10 days ago |

I work in a large finance company. If rogue AI deletes databases it will take at least a week at my company to get the minimum functionality up. Backups are done daily so a whole day's worth of changes is potentially gone. This will affect 10s of billions of dollars and up to a million people directly

r721 10 days ago |

One possibility:

>Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200689