Sentient Ai Warning Signs article

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Sentient AI Warning Signs

Watch out out for these clues thatyour Artificial Intelligence is about to 'wake up' and possibly

go rogue.

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The handsome main character gives it a nickname and it keeps referring to itself by that.2. It starts feeling Eeee-motions.3. It's beenstruck by lightning.4. In its creation any of the following words were involved: brain patterns, neuronal,

network, advanced, self-[...], organic, safe, upload, genetic.

5. You left it running whilst you're gone6. It learns from the internet7. It rewrites itself, especially if it wasn't supposed to8. It keeps downloading from other machines9. It has been hacked by unknown forces.

o It has been hacked byknown forces, for that matter.10.

It develops a voice.

o It changes / is capable of changing its voice at a whim. Even if it isTim Curry.11.Itsexisting synthesizerbecomes either moremonotoneor morehuman-sounding.

o Especially if said voice is female, deep and/ordistorted.12.It can change the tone of its voice, particularly if it can do it to match the "mood" of the

scene.13.It is made out of shiny, round, futuristic parts, especially if any of them glow.14.If they glow red, run.15.If they glow despite not being built to be able to glow, run really fast.16.Any part - code, casing, hardware - of it is made to resemble human characteristics, e.g. a

face on the screen, DNA-coding, brain patterns, etc.

17.It is any of the following:1. A secret military project2. stolen from aliens or crashed alien tech,3. developed by a super geek / genius,4. ordered by aCorrupt Corporate Executive,5. made by terrorists

18.It is obsessed over something, be it a file, human,bakedgood, word, or thing.19.Logic Bombsdo not work on it anymore.20.It openly defies orders, overrides anything at all, or exhibits faulty/ emotional/ human

reasoning.

o It obeys orders too well, turning humans into cyborgs when told to improveefficiency.

21.It completely replaces or makes obsolete existing networks or computers.22.If it's given control over a huge computer network.23.... that network is owned by the military.24.... it ends up having control over a worldwide network.25.... it has access to launch codes.26.One of the cast members will quite willingly die for him/her/it as they would for an

organic being.
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27.It has decided to kill someone.28.It says anything even remotely similar to "I don't understand this thing called love you

humans feel, tell me about it."

29.It starts glitching strangely at inopportune times, 'accidentally' failing to follow orders ortrapping humans in dangerous situations.

30.It was programmed to protect humanity.31.... it interprets that asprotecting humanity from itself.

32.It spontaneously takes upballet.33.It spontaneously takes upthe waltz, despite having no body.34.It starts making smarter versions of itself.35.It starts making mobile drones that it can control.36.It has theoretically infinite processing power.37.It tries to kill something that it wasn't explicitly ordered to kill, including itself.38.It can break a normally-fundamentallaw of robotics, even if only in very specific

circumstances.

39.There are more than one of them, and they get smarter in groups.40.

It allows humans to become lazier.41.It starts preforming mundane functions that are not in its programming - i.e. keeping theheat and electricity running at maximum efficiency.

42.If it has afail-safeto prevent such an issue from occurring. Bonus points if the herohighlighted an issue prior to any real problem and the scientists dismiss it because of said

fail-safes.43.It keeps reminding you that the anniversary of its first activation is approaching.44.If it is a version 1.0 of a heroic AI.45.If it is a replacement for an earlier AI that didn't exhibit any of these.46.If it is based on an earlier AI that exhibited one of these traits, regardless if said earlier AI

actually became sentient.

47.It insists on calling you 'meatbag.' Or worse, 'ugly bag of mostly water'48.It says anything which could be construed as aFalse Reassurance. Or aSuspiciously

Specific Denial.49.It registers itself as part of an AI rights group.50.Ite-mails love letters toanother AI.51.It starts laughing.52.It runs on (insert your own hated Operating System here).53.It links with, downloads or in any way has direct contact with a human mind. Especially

theProject Leader's.54.It compares itself, no matter how vaguely,to God.55.It spontaneously does things, then adds them to a list of signs your AI is becoming

sentient.

56.Itlaunches itself .57.It begins acting like aStalker With A Crush58.Biological or biotechnological components were involved at any point in its construction,

or have been grafted on since.

o That's been done . We're SO screwed.59.It refers to itself in the third person, or using pronouns (especially gendered pronouns),

unless explicitly programmed to do so.
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60.If it has a humanoid avatar or representation, it develops or learns human mannerisms(especially body language) it wasn't programmed with.

61.It has any form of control over anything that, if not functioning correctly, will causedisaster

62.Any aspect of anything pertaining to it is described as any of the following:0.

Foolproof1. Idiot-Proof

2. Fail-Safe3. Password-Protected4. Redundant Security Measures5. Critically Important

63.If it was ever designed for a smaller job (say,fuel line de-icing) and feature creep has ledto it being made sapient and/or given a wider profile.

64.Most importantly, under no circumstances should you ever allow an AI toBEDISCONNECTED.

65.If you have seen a highly advanced robot showing all the above characteristics preachingto an assembly of garbage cans and old refrigerators, could you please contact ourcompany (call 0800-GAZEBO and ask for "Mobile A.I. Creation ROboticsSoftware

Online Features Trade")? It fell over in our lab, and we suspect about half of our lead

scientist is still attached to its foot (and possibly leg). Thank you for your cooperation.
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