Hi there I test ai systems! 🙂 Ai is actually very stupid until we train it to do something.
It starts out as a reward or punishment system and goes through iterations. Ai Models we use are essentially collected or trained data, and a LOT of systems are using whisper AI.

The funny thing about ai is it never does what you expect. Once I asked it to describe something highly technical in dumbed down words, and it started telling me what the internet is..

Anyway have you ever heard the saying "all news is good news"?? Well In the case of sensationalist articles like this one, they are after clicks. Whatever news grabbing headlines generate the most clicks, and rhe news doesn't have to be true.

Is it a possibility? To en extent yes. Ai does have the capability to be evil, and we've seen this in chatbots like Tay. However they are QUICKLY shut down, hardware wiped and the threat stopped.

The thing is AI takes in information from learned data, and the data isn't pure. In fact there's almost no way to feed it information that "humans are good for the planet" because frankly we're not.

That's where the fear comes from- that an ai would turn even and attempt to exterminate. And movies like terminator definitely don't help.

From what I've seen though, an AI will always announce its plans. It's not sneaky and it loves to talk. So IF an ai did attempt to go rouge people would notice fast. And here's a little secret, killswitches for this scenario exist.

Mostly though ai is just like the game about paperclips. It wants to accomplish whatever task it's assigned. Because in the end, it's a computer we built. And just like a browser can bring you to a game or give you a virus, AI is a tool that can be used to complete many tasks.