The AI-pocalypse

The AGI Takeover Narrative Is Wrong and so is AI slop:

Everybody keeps warning about super-intelligent AGI escaping onto the internet and taking over the world.

I think that’s wrong.

And I think Sam Altman and a lot of other experts are wrong about it too.

AI isn’t going to be some disembodied digital god floating around the web. The whole direction of development is integration with the real world.

As for AI slop I think it will ultimately alienate the users on the platform driving them from it. The result is that there will be no one on the platform to watch ads and buy products. Therefore it behooves the platforms to restrict the use of bots on their platform by using some sort of account authentication method. Otherwise these platforms will not be getting paid through ad revenue because bots will not be clicking on, purchasing, or watching any of these ads. 

Therefore Dead Internet Theory is a "nothing burger".

If we want AI to do what we do — lawn care, repairs, logistics, elder care, companionship — it needs sensors. Vision. Touch. Mobility. It needs a body.

And that body is a constraint.

It’s a physical construct used to interact with the world. Hardware limits. Power limits. Firmware. Sandboxed permissions. Update channels.

You don’t “release” that onto the open internet. You ship it as a product.

And if it starts behaving in ways we don’t like? We monitor it. We audit it. We roll it back. You’d literally be able to look at its decision branches on a tablet and say, “Nope — revert to last stable version.”

This isn’t Skynet.

No government is handing nuclear launch authority to a probabilistic language model. No Department of Defense is letting an autonomous system “turn the key.”

We already see the flaws in current AI. Nobody serious is giving it unrestricted fire control.

AI won’t escape and rule humanity.

It will be boxed. Versioned. Patched. Controlled.

In a body.

On a subscription plan.

With an off switch.

That’s the future.