Steve Gibson

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30,295 appearances 25 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Security Now (Audio) · SN 1096: Are we the Krell? - 153 Million Driver's Licenses Leaked · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

And though AI is undoubtedly becoming ever more clever, its essential nature is not changing. voice-verified

Now some might argue if the simulation of a human mind is indistinguishable from us, voice-verified

If it is in fact a perfect simulation of a mind, what's the difference? voice-verified

Well, many societal problems arise from ascribing intelligence to today's AI. voice-verified

But the biggie for this dis this for this discussion is what I'll call intrinsic intent. voice-verified

The hysterical press coverage that we see surrounding the well publicized breakouts of frontier AI anthropomorphize intention. voice-verified

into these and i in into each of these events. voice-verified

Bruce Schneier got it so perfectly correct uh with his genie analogy. voice-verified

The researchers running these exercises gave their frontier AIs a problem with insufficient constraints. voice-verified

It did not occur to the researchers that their AI might go to great lengths to find the answer to the challenge elsewhere. voice-verified

But it did occur to their AI, if occur can be used. voice-verified

So that's what it did. voice-verified

There was no malicious intent present. voice-verified

It was just finding the shortest path to the solution using all of the resources at its disposal. voice-verified

The nature of the solution the AI discovered embarrassed their disc their their developers and frightened the general public. voice-verified

But that wasn't the AI's fault, and it certainly wasn't its intent, I have in air quotes, because a simulation of a mind has no intrinsic intent. voice-verified

There's no seat for any intent. voice-verified

I've developed this line of reasoning because we also keep encountering a different analogy from science fiction, and that is, of course, the Terminator's Skynet. voice-verified

You know, quoting from the second Terminator movie, where we first learned the details of how human how humanity got itself into that mess. voice-verified

The script reads: the Skynet funding bill passed. voice-verified

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