# Straight Dope 2/24/2023: What are the chances artificial intelligence will destroy humanity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [February 24, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-2-24-2023-what-are-the-chances-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-humanity/980302 "2023-02-24T15:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 76
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-2-24-2023-what-are-the-chances-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-humanity/980302/76 "2023-02-27T14:12:58Z")
To me, the fact that 20-30% of the population are actively trying to train AI’s to hate the same people they hate is just as worrisome, if not more so, than the “overproduction via bad code” issue: > [@Freakouts of the Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/476): > > I read a lot of science fiction in my life. Most of it positive, of course, even the dystopian stuff for it all implied we had a future. But there is a reason why Ellison’s _I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream_ was such a shocking trendsetter that it is famous today, in ways his other masterworks (like _Jeffty Is Five_) are not. Commonly anthologized, it would not surprise me to have made Norton’s. > > I think about that story whenever I read of attempts like the above, for Ellison never explained… from memory, and we all know how reliable that is… how the AI came to hate, or if it did, it was vague as befits a short story which doesn’t care about the details of the dead civilization which built the Damned thing. > > But I wonder if Ellison would have ever thought that the reason why the AI in his story became so full of hate was because 30% of the population worked on making sure it could be tribal and hateful, and complained when it wasn’t. > > … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-2-24-2023-what-are-the-chances-artificial-intelligence-will-destroy-humanity/980302)._