Welcome human friend!

This site is dedicated to research and unveil the perils, imminence and probabilities of a — possibly hostile — takeover of the world through artificial intelligence. I will stay on the lookout for you and post articles, research papers and break-throughs of everything that could affect this danger.

I will attempt to classify the threat value of each event into a number that indicates how much more or less likely it is that a hostile takeover will happen. Consequently, the event of this site appearing will also get a probability value, namely of -0.1%. Why negative, you ask? Well, as there is only little agglomerated information on the danger of intelligent machines (we are talking non-fiction here!), this site can (probably) help to drag this danger into the public eye and help sharpen it to avoid said takeover. This might sound a bit self-important, but it is not: As long as this site is unnoticed and ignored, so is the probability value: As long as no one cares, the measure is irrelevant anyway.

Of course, these values seem arbitrary at first, but I hope they will give a feeling of relative importance of events. My subjective feeling, for sure, but I will try to keep it as objective as possible and not drift into scaremongery. So, why the negative theme of hostile takeover and all then? For one, there is already good information on the “Friendly AI” side out there, for example from the Singularity Institute, of which I definitely will talk about a lot in future articles. Second, the danger of a “false negative”, or type II error as statisticians would call it, is much more critical when one assumes future AIs (and probably emerging consciousnesses) will be friendly: We have to be wary about a future HAL. If the hypothesis this site follows turns out to be false on the other hand, we don’t lose much. Okey, we shut down a super-friendly world improving computer, but that is better than being <insert gruesome science fiction outcome here>, isn’t it?

In this spirit, stay informed (you know where, now)!

PS: Although I’ll write about this in English, this is not my mother tongue, so it is very likely that horrible typos, adventurous sentence structure and twisted grammar will appear. Feel free to notify me of anything thereof. Preferably not in the comments to minimize the exposure of my failed verbiage ;-).

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