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

Posted by thoughtpeddler |3 hours ago |2 comments

edfsadfer 3 hours 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 2 hours ago

One possibility:

>Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

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