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>It doesn’t take much for an Ai to find out that if it is to complete the tasks that are given it, then its first duty (obviously) is to survive.

Or just have another robot fetch the coffee if the first goes offline? Death and anthropomorphism are clearly the wrong concepts here. His error is to imagine households so poor they won't be able to send another robot to see where the last robot broke down. Fry is really out of touch with the way things and parts of things are tinkered with. Even chatgpt4-o1 CoT is not 1 thing but a system sending another agent to see where the last one went wrong and adjust.

So evolution magically explains self-preservation in AI and is sure to emerge in machines like animals and will alchemize more "self-awareness". Fantastic paradoxical sci-fi storytelling but not convincing at all in the real world.

The facts are AI never had any self-awareness, it doesn't know where it begins or ends, neither the system or its creator can tune into actual evolutionary forces (artificial selection might be a better term for pretending to though it frightens less), and it cannot "lie" or "breach itself" with any sense of agency. The only things that will be breached for the foreseeable future are the pundits' fashionably wrong-headed expectations.



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