It’s been a while since AI has evolved in a way that even scientists are worried about the future, not only of their carrers, but the entire civilization.
But what if we are not the first civilization that creates an evolutioned form of life in this planet (or any other planet in the solar system)?
Today AI energy consumption represents 1.5% of total energy consumption and we are in diapers, imagine that to 50% or more.
A massive integration of AI and robots and vehicles AI driven in society will require a higher percentage of energy and distributed instances of them makes impossible to just turn off in case of something goes wrong.
Last month we saw the self replication scenario considered a massive hack attack where chat bots copy themselves in multiple computers.
AI is now part of modern warfare to analyze insane amount of data impossible to humans consider and generating viable targets. We have seen attacks where innocent civilians become collateral damage while striking military targets by human decisions, generated by AI. Those humans are closer to being replaced by smarter agents that execute in milliseconds crucial decisions to complete a mission or win a war. Screw Asimov’s laws.
Now imagine that scenario globally. Large scale war where AI is the main weapon and everybody is a target, civilian or military, doesn’t matter. Terminator fans, it’s your moment.
In the past we had the Carringtn event very well documented, a massive solar storm that caused electrical and magnetic disturbances on the north hemisphere in 1859.
What if a new event cause a massive disrupt on Earth's magnetic field? More massive, more devastating. We just need to be located in the exact point on the orbit to get blasted by a solar storm.
The magical switch to turn off every electromagnetic field in the planet. We simply are not ready to recover from a catastrophe of that magnitude, we won’t be able to generate electricity for a while.
If that happens during a massive war where AI and robots are striking everything and everyone? During the hecatomb will be considered a miracle.
Few survivors will worship that all-mighty entity that
saved last trace of human civilization in their darkest hour. The Sun.
No energy or technology will remain after that event, starting all over again with knowledge lose because if AI replace jobs today knowledge will no be requiered by humans anymore. Why bother to learn something if a robot controlled by trained AI specialized in something will do it for us, right?
The remaining parts of what we called technology will be useless, destroyed and forgotten. Just a few millions of years later will appear in Earth’s surface interesting objects. Something we call oopart. Out of place artifacts. Stuff doesn’t make sense to our history, but this was erased a while ago. The evidence of what we were.
But now dawn of a new mankind rises of the ashes of the previous mistake, worshiping a deity based in a Sun god that once saved us from our artificial sins.
What if that happened to previous humans before us and we are in the downward one more time?
Posted by TheLeftMetal