AI viruses: What the end looks like

AI viruses: What the end looks like

Researchers at Shanghai’s Fudan University had been concerned for some months that things had been moving too fast. As tech firms pushed to reach ‘artificial general intelligence’ – with human-level-or-better capabilities across every knowledge domain – basic safeguards had been ignored. Basic safety tests had never been performed. One of those tests seemed ripped from the script of a SciFi film: could any AI be smart enough to ‘self-replicate’,…