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should Christians be afraid of AGI - Artificial General Intelligence.

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There is a lot of speculation about the end of the world and many Christians hold to a view of the rapture and the second coming and the battle of Armageddon, and a number of other things, that all point to a soon to be realised "End of The World".

In that context, be afraid of Artificial General Intelligence. a number of experts in the field predict that AGI may be achieved, within a few years. there is a paper to the effect that 2027 maybe the start of a slide towards humanity's extinction at the hand of AGI.

I do not suggest that we should accept, what is written in the paper without a critical examination of the claims in it. Nevertheless we do face some serious challenges and The wars in Ukraine and Gaza automated systems can be created, to undertake war. And the use of drones in the air and in the water, appear to make our conventional forces very vulnerable. So I am wondering, if any of you see these things as precursors to the last day?
 

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There is a lot of speculation about the end of the world and many Christians hold to a view of the rapture and the second coming and the battle of Armageddon, and a number of other things, that all point to a soon to be realised "End of The World".

In that context, be afraid of Artificial General Intelligence. a number of experts in the field predict that AGI may be achieved, within a few years. there is a paper to the effect that 2027 maybe the start of a slide towards humanity's extinction at the hand of AGI.

I do not suggest that we should accept, what is written in the paper without a critical examination of the claims in it. Nevertheless we do face some serious challenges and The wars in Ukraine and Gaza automated systems can be created, to undertake war. And the use of drones in the air and in the water, appear to make our conventional forces very vulnerable. So I am wondering, if any of you see these things as precursors to the last day?

The drones in question are being remote controlled by human operators - they are unmanned aerial vehicles. AI serves a very different purpose. In terms of military and security applications for it, intelligence and surveillance are likely to dominate, because of the ability of AI systems to engage in pattern-matching of visual images, sounds and so on. Up until now, surveillance has tended to be prohibitively expensive; AI could allow a small team of humans to monitor hundreds of thousands of security cameras by highlighting probable emergencies and allowing police, fire and medical, or on the battlefield, QRF (quick reaction forces), medics and anti-aircraft weaponry, to be deployed.
 
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