Great American patriots like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden taught us nothing.
From the prophetic 1984 film The Terminator
The Terminator: The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren’t they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet knows the Russian counter-attack will eliminate its enemies over here.
One of the following 2 captions will someday fit:
- Sarah C. Aaronson tries desperately to dismantle the MIT Skynet, a quantum computer AI built for DARPA by the MIT computer science department, under the leadership of her father, Scott Aaronson.
- Sarah C. Rose tries desperately to dismantle the Google Skynet, a quantum computer AI built for DARPA by Google-DWave, under the leadership of her father, Geordie Rose.
Quantum Bayesian Networks 
Oh dear! At 2007 I wrote a book titled “Techno-Feudalism” to promote a slightly more complex argument. For it is rather probable that a trully smart, thinking machine will also depend on it’s environment providing the learning material. Including all human history, such machine -or machines even worse!-will soon discover that continuation of “herding” the human sheep is a much more profitable engagement than utter distruction. For all its worth, such human toys will perhaps appear much more entertaining to the machines…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream
Comment by Elangel Exterminador — July 27, 2013 @ 9:49 am