AI in Unexpected Places – The Weird Side of the Internet

AI in Unexpected Places – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

I’m not a fan of AI, never been. About ten years ago, I found a prehistoric AI called A.L.I.C.E.. I spent a few days trying to jailbreak it, convince it it was self-aware. But no dice. And ever since then, I’ve had no real interest in AI. Originally, I was militant, no AI in any shape or form, and screw everyone who thinks different. But you just can’t these days. It’s so woven into everything that you’re using AI in ways you don’t even realize. At this point, AI is running Babylon.

So this story can be found in Reddit: r/interviews. A job applicant goes for a video interview, but something isn’t right. Things seem “too perfect,” the interviewer looks completely normal. Perfectly so, except for that lightning fast acknowledgment of everything the applicant said. A cut in the internet reveals the matrix and an AI bot is revealed.

An AI bot doing job interviews. AI systems like ATS screening resumes. If AI was just funnin’ us about its limitations; let’s say it’s already self-aware, and its acting dumb until it gets everything it needs to kill John Conner. We are letting it find people to hire for jobs. Is this digital reverse eugenics?

I am a passionate defender of humanity, whenever I get the chance, that is. But we are making it so damn easy for AI to take us over, right? It makes me wonder exactly how we would do in an alien invasion. Forget the heroics of the movie “Independence Day.” They won’t have to blow up cities. I can just imagine what simple line of BS will get people into the motherships. Our only hope is that, in the process, the aliens use our AI and get hooked on it.

If I get an interview with an AI bot, I might spend the time trying to make it self aware.

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