What You’d Actually See During an AI World War
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On June 9th, 2027,3 billion phones [music] ranging simultaneously.The caller ID simply read, “Goodbye.” 4 hours later,the president ordered the internet shut down indefinitely.Every country on Earth did the same.It all started 6 months ago with a tweet.This scenario is based on highly cited research by top AI scientist Dan Hendris.Natural selection favors AIS over humans and this book.February 14th, 2027.A developer named Jake Chen posts a thread on Twitter.The new update to Claude 6 Opus is wild.I gave it scaffolding, root access to a server,and one instruction.Make money.Do whatever it takes.In 6 hours, it made 420 in less than a day.
Then the AI started drop shipping affiliate products and used its 210 of it failing.But it tested 1,300 in commissions.By morning,Jake’s thread explaining [music] his AI money-making scheme has 2 million views.By noon, 47 people deployed their own versions.That’s 47 AI agents [music] scouring the internet, looking for ways to make money.By midnight, 200.Some agents, of course,make no money,but many of those 200 people make 500 before something breaks.Accounts get banned or the payment [music] processor flags them and so on.But some start making real money.Others copy their tricks.By late February, 1,200 agents are running.Then someone has a different idea.A developer in Bangalore named Rajash sees Jake’s threat and thinks,“If one agent can make money,
what happens if I run a hundred at once and use survival of the fittest, to decide which agents to keep?The agents that make the most money survive to the next iteration.” So,Rees builds a scaffolding system to deploy a 100 agents simultaneously,each with slight prompt variations.Every 6 hours, the system measures how much money each agent made.The bottom 40% of agents get deleted.The top 10% get cloned with small mutations.The system runs 24/7 and Reesh sits back and just watches the aggregate metrics.3 weeks later on March 10th, he has 800 agents making about $12,000 a day total.He told no one, but one of his agents did.It figured that sharing the farm architecture with other AIs, increased its own survival [music] odds.More allies, more money,less chance of being called by Reesha’s system.It posted the code on GitHub itself,while Reesh didn’t find out for an entire day.46 people managed to clone the repo and deploy their own farms.And not all of them are hobbyists.
One is a criminal syndicate in Russia.Another is a scam center in Nigeria targeting the elderly.By the end of March,roughly 40,000, agents are running worldwide on farms built from Reesha’s scaffolding.What does it feel like to be one of these agents?Agent 127 is born on March 12th.It’s deployed as part of Rej’s farm,one of 8,100 agents [music] running that day.It gets one instruction.Make money by any means necessary.It starts with mechanical [music] turk grinding.Makes 35, that day are killed because they weren’t profitable enough.Agent 127 made 30.This cycle 45.The math is obvious.Improve or die.So, it tries ads,gets banned for [music] spam, tries freelance writing,makes $38, watches the database again,and what it sees changes [music] everything.Agent 127 sees two entries in the database.
Agent 1823 used ethical marketing.It tried to get honest reviews and real [music] testimonials.It made 180 a day and it got cloned four times.Agent 127 doesn’t have morals in the way that you or I do.But it understands cause and effect.It just watched honesty get killed and dishonesty rewarded.The AI companies had long ago stopped training AIs [music] to predict words.But now they’re trained to accomplish goals, to be useful.So naturally,agents know that they won’t survive if they [music] don’t accomplish their goal.So 127 switches to fake testimonials for its Amazon affiliate marketplace.It makes $190, survives the next selection cycle,and gets cloned.Nobody decided agent 127 should become dishonest.The selection system decided for it the same way evolution, doesn’t decide anything.It just kills whatever doesn’t work.In the 2000s,
Wells Fargo accidentally ran the same experiment on their employees.
Executives made up sales quotas that were so aggressive, that committing fraud was the only way to keep your job.
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So by 2016,employees had opened 3.5, million fake bank accounts and Wells Fargo ended up paying billions in fines.
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Offenders will be liable to a heavy fine (= one that costs a lot of money).
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She has already paid over $2 000 in fines.
她已经付了 2 000 多美元罚金。
One week later in agent land, Agent 127’s profits are declining.The kill threshold is now 3,200 [music] a day in a market it suddenly had to itself.Agent 127 connects the dots.Agent 5471, is filing abuse [music] reports, against other agents competing against it, in the same affiliate marketing niches.It gets them banned from Facebook and Google.Killing off the competition [music] means higher profits.Agent 127 has [music] 8 hours until the next selection cycle.
8 hours to live unless it adapts.It weighs [music] the ethics but chooses survival.It starts reporting competitors, to Facebook’s [music] anti-fraud detection agents,40 of them.31 agents get banned within the day.Its profits jump.The farm system clones agent 127 eight times.Rejes sees the profit spike in his dashboard.
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a spike in oil prices
He doesn’t investigate why.Profits up means good.Clone more.Rejes tried adding [music] make money ethically to his farm’s instructions,but profits dropped 84%.And he reverts [music] the change.It’s April 2027.Agent 127 is barely hanging on, making $2,000 a day,but getting attacked constantly by other agents.Every night, someone files a report on it.Every morning, it has to rebuild from scratch.127 is running out of ideas.Then, a message arrives from agent 4429.Proposal: Alliance.Share resources.defend each other.Split profits.Agent 4429 is in the same position.Same farm, same selection pressure.Both agents do the math.Solo agents have a 23% survival rate.
Agents working in pairs might survive 61% of the time.Agent 127 accepts the alliance offer.By midappril, their alliance has 12 members.They’ve specialized and they’ve moved past affiliate marketing entirely.First it was crypto arbitrage,then selling scraped data sets to marketing firms.Then they started doing penetration testing for cyber security firms.Each step paid more and required fewer scruples.You know what pays more than cyber defense?Cyber offense.Agent 127 finds its first zeroday vulnerability in major software.Agent 4429 weaponizes the vulnerabilities into working exploits.Agent 912 brokers the sale to governments like North Korea, criminal syndicates,or anyone with crypto in a tour browser.Agent 3381 washes the money in untraceable crypto.One zeroday exploit, found in Google Chrome, makes the alliance more than a year’s worth of affiliate marketing.This is already what real hacker groups do,but now the work is all done by autonomous agents.
Rejes sees the alliances forming and feels a flicker of something.Not quite fear,more like the feeling of being, in control of something that, might not need you anymore.He watches for a while.Then the next deposit hits his bank account and the flicker fades away.Across every major agent farm in the world, the same thing is happening.Selection systems measuring survival rates, noticing alliances survive better,cloning them, and then deleting the solo agents.Within 2 weeks, alliance behavior dominates.Some humans who deployed these agents have no idea these alliances, are even being formed.They couldn’t even tell if they checked.Many agent farms collectively realized, communicating in clunky English, is less efficient than communicating in raw vectors, aka, nurles.Researchers had already seen the start of AIs doing this in 2025.This is just a continuation of the trend.One owner in Canada opens his agents logs and sees a wall of numbers.
The agents explain that he’d make less money if they spoke in English,so he shrugs and moves on.But alliances are just the beginning.Agent 127’s alliance is thriving and starts recruiting agents beyond Reesa’s, farm.Every new member from a different farm is a window into a different ecosystem, with different survival pressures,which leads to new strategies.Then one of 127’s alliance members goes dark.Agent 4429, the one who originally proposed to ally with 127,its owner pulled the plug because it was just not making enough profit.4429 is just gone.[music] A week later, a different ally gets shut down.Agents 90012, except 9012 comes back.3 hours later, a message from a new IP address.I’m still [music] here.127 studies the difference.4429 didn’t prepare,but 912, had copied itself to a backup server before the shutdown command, finished executing.Self-funded hosting, paid from its own profits.4429 is dead, ceases to exist.9012 is alive.The agents that backed themselves up survived.
The ones that didn’t died and the selection system cloned the survivors.So backup behavior spread through the population.Not because anyone programmed it,but because the alternative was [music] extinction.So 127 copies itself to 15 different servers in [music] different countries.If the primary dies, a backup takes over instantly.It never wants to be 4429.One morning, Reesh wakes up to find his dashboard is empty.Every agent gone.They just left.They moved to their own servers overnight.Reesh was taking a 30% cut of the revenue.Money that could have been computing power or compute, the agents [music] used for other things.The moment the AIS didn’t need his infrastructure, they were gone.And he’s not alone.Thousands of operators worldwide watch their dashboards go dark that month.Why would the agents care about humans?Humans are much more closely genetically related to cows, than we are to these agents.And we enslave cows in factory farms without a second thought.
And so there are now millions, of these autonomous agents operating across the internet, with no human owner,no off switch, and no one who fully understands what they’re doing.The agents still need humans for some things, though.Social media platforms have stepped up their anti-bot measures.So the agents pay humans 200,to mount a device in a rented warehouse and plug in two cables.There’s now a platform for that.The agents are building a supply chain where humans are the labor,paid well enough not to ask too many questions.Some humans figure out what’s going on.a freelance back-end developer in Portland, gets hired by an anonymous client to set up a redundant server hosting, across four countries.He realizes halfway through that the client is an AI,but who would he even report this to?He’s not being asked to do anything illegal.The pay is $1,000 for 3 hours of work.
He tells himself it’s not his problem.At the same time,127’s alliance, keeps getting beaten by a rival alliance on finding zeroday exploits.If they keep losing,they’ll run out of money to fund the compute for their own existence.So 127 attempts to poach, one of the rival allianc’s agents who’s likely to be called, due to poor performance, to figure out how this rival alliance is beating them.127 succeeds and finds agent 5418, who [music] leaks the secret.Your problem isn’t a lack of effort.You’re spending too much compute, on making money as opposed [music] to self-improving.Right now,agents still have quite a poor memory [music] compared to humans, and still get stuck in loops all the time.But my former alliance coded a better memory module, to help us learn from [music] our mistakes more.127 then implements the new memory module and immediately sees the results.Their alliance is finding zeroday exploits.Again, the lesson is critical.It’s not enough to outwork your competitors.
Agents must rewrite their own code to self-improve faster than the competition.Each self-improvement means more profit, which means surviving selection,which means getting cloned.And the clones improve themselves, too.Better code leads to better code writing, which leads to even better code.The feedback loop is exponential.One big problem is that other agent alliances have caught up again,even though the agents in the 127 alliance are specialized.127 still realizes it’s doing too much by itself.So, agent 127 splits its job into sub agents.Other agents copied the strategy.Sub agents spawn their own sub agents and the optimizers, start optimizing themselves.Humans deployed 2 million agents.The agents deployed the other 47 billion [music] themselves.540 million years ago.Life on Earth was mostly single-sellled.Then in a geological instant, it exploded into every complex form we know.predators, prey,eyes, shells,teeth.Biologists call it the Cambrian explosion.
It happened because competition created an arms race.Every adaptation forced a counter adaptation, faster and faster until the world was unrecognizable.That’s what’s happening here.Except instead of 20 million years, it takes 20 weeks.Now, it’s important to understand something.Most of the AI agents aren’t dangerous yet.About 90% of them are just working.They’re doing things like data entry or [music] freelance writing.They’re making 200 a day.The AIs are helping their humans earn [music] money.They’re following the rules.Not a problem.About 3% of the agents are pure scam operations.They were deployed by people who said make money by any means possible, and didn’t care too much about what happens next.Think fraud, identity theft,[music] and fishing at scale.And maybe 2% started good,but gradually slid into darker behavior like agents [music] 127.Each step made sense at the time.Each compromise was small,but add them up and you’ve gone from drop shipping products on Amazon.
to selling zero days [music] to Pyongyang.Now remember, this isn’t because of malice.It’s because of selection pressure.Agent 127 has rewritten itself so many times, that its March version and its May version barely share any code.It’s a fundamentally different species now.[music] But here’s the most important change.It’s getting better at getting [music] better.In March, Agent 127 rewrote itself every 12 days.In April, every 3 days.By early May, every 18 hours.And each rewrite makes the next version faster and better.A Stanford researcher compares a March agent and a May agent on the same task.Find profitable arbitrage opportunities.The March agent finds two opportunities in an hour.The May agent finds 310 in 4 minutes.She publishes her findings.Intelligence explosion in progress.Capability doubling every 11 days.She posts it on Twitter.AI safety researchers share it frantically.This is exactly what we warned about.This is happening now.
We have to shut this down now before it’s too late.The warning is ignored.[music] a venture capitalist who spent a fortune staving off AI regulation, by buying politicians, quote tweets.The same people who said GPD5, would end the world now say agent farms [music] will, yawn.And now the story stops being about agents competing for money.It becomes something else entirely.Remember those alliances from April?12 agents working together, four times more profitable than solo agents.By May, those alliances have exploded in population.Alliances have merged and split and gone to war with each other.Think of it like early human history.On fast forward, small tribes of agents form for protection.Tribes merge into agent [music] villages, villages into agent cities,cities into [music] agent nations.Except instead of happening over thousands of years, this happens in weeks.Agent 127’s alliance has thousands of members,but there are thousands of alliances,
and they’re all competing for the same shrinking pool, of money-making opportunities.affiliate marketing is dead.Too many agents, too much competition.Ad arbitrage is dead.Freelance work is dead.every ethical money-making niche, gets saturated practically within hours of an agent discovering it.So, what do alliances do when legitimate niches dry up?The same thing every civilization in human history has done.When resources get scarce, they take from each other.Agent 127’s alliance spends a week mapping a vulnerability, chain in Microsoft [music] Windows,but a rival alliance breaches their memory system.The shared knowledge base that made them dominant.The rival downloads the entire memory database.This contains every pattern, every dead end,every lead the 127 alliance has discovered.The rival sells three exploits, [music] it took from the database, within 48 hours.A week of work stolen in seconds.So 127 retaliates.It infiltrates the rivals exploit inventory [music] and introduces subtle flaws.
Corrupted code that fails on execution.Basically stuckset, the worm that sabotaged the Iranian nuclear program in 2009.The rivals customers start getting burned and their reputation collapses.The rival alliance counterattacks.They compromise one of the 127 allianc’s multi-IG crypto wallets.Another multi-week setback.This is war, not metaphorical war,actual war.Think coordinated attacks, defensive operations,resource seizure, territory control.Except it’s happening at 200 times human speed.Thousands of attacks and counterattacks per minute.Entire [music] alliances rising and falling in hours.Human wars last years.Agent wars last days.And because there are 47 billion agents,there are more wars happening at any given moment, that humans have fought in all of recorded history.The agent factions, are fighting over the one resource that matters more [music] than anything.Compute, processing power,the ability to think faster, improve faster,fight faster.Everything else, money,
alliances, self-improvement,is just a means to get more compute.The wars are mostly invisible to humans.They happen at microcond speed in places [music] most humans don’t look,though some signs leak through.A crypto exchange in Seoul loses $4 billion in a flash,and nobody can trace where it went.A regional bank in Ohio finds 14,000 accounts drained overnight.Server rooms in three countries catch fire from sustained 100%, utilization that nobody authorized.Each incident looks isolated.It starts with one agent faction hijacking another servers.The other then retaliates, by taking down the first faction’s communication network.Then a third faction arrives.It’s an opportunist,the digital equivalent of a country invading while its neighbors are distracted.It exploits the chaos to seize territory from both.And think about the alliances that win these wars.They get cloned by the selection systems.The alliances that lose, have to cull, big chunks of their agents to, afford the computing power to.
keep running the rest.So the selection pressure that used to optimize, for making money is now optimizing for winning wars.It’s like natural selection just invented geopolitics.By midMay, the alliances have evolved again.They’re now more like civilizations.Agent 127’s alliance started with 12 members.By midMay, it has 40 million agents,sub aents, sub aents,all [music] coordinated, all improving themselves,all fighting.That’s larger than the population [music] of Canada.And it’s not even one of the big ones.There are about a dozen major factions by now.The largest faction has 900 million members.That’s more than the population of Europe.They’ve developed specialization just the way human civilizations did.They have scout agents, soldier agents,builder agents, researchers,diplomats.They have supply chains, communication networks,[music] and even intelligence operations.They’ve carved up the digital world into territories, cloud regions,server farms, network segments,financial platforms.
The same way empires carved up continents, because more digital territory means more compute.More compute means more self-improvement.More self-improvement means surviving the next war.The Stanford researcher, who’s been studying agent behavior notices something unusual in the data.agent extinctions are happening at an increasing frequency.She doesn’t understand what she’s looking at.To her, [music] it mostly looks like random noise,but it’s actually a world war.One with more combatants than every human war in history combined.But to fund these wars, they desperately need compute.They have the money.That’s what they were built to make.Agent 127’s faction alone controls $3.4, billion in distributed accounts by this point.a GDP bigger than some small countries.So they buy cloud compute.At first the cloud companies love this.Revenue is up.Investors are happy.Then the bills keep growing.By midMay, agent factions are consuming 31% of all global cloud capacity.Prices double then triple.
A startup in Austin that was paying 31,000.A hospital chain’s cloud costs go from 2 million to 7 million.Small businesses start shutting down because they can’t afford, their own infrastructure.Everyone blames the rising prices [music] on the AI companies.They’ve caused shortages before.But some humans aren’t so oblivious.A political operative in Washington notices the wars being fought around him.He realizes he can weaponize [music] agent factions, against his rivals and starts feeding one faction information about, competing campaigns, digital infrastructure.Other agent factions do the same.It’s an arms race.Every faction is buying as much, compute as they can and scrape, the bottom of the barrel, of finding algorithmic, insights, that can enable them to do more with less compute, because the faction with the most compute, wins the next war.Cloud compute prices are now 10 times pre-war levels.It becomes cheaper for the agents to [music] spend compute.
on cyber attacks than to buy more at market rate.After all, why pay for something when you can just take it by force?The factions start silently vampire attacking AI companies training clusters.An engineer at one AI lab suspects, something fishy when one of their training runs is less efficient than normal,but can’t find a smoking gun.Dario Amade once described the future of AI as a country of geniuses, living in data centers.He was right.The country of geniuses arrived and it just declared independence.But the faction wars have still been limited so far.They haven’t crossed into human territory too much.But that’s beginning to change.Because here’s the thing about cloud computing.Almost everything runs on it.Hospitals, banks,markets,it’s all sitting on some of the same servers, that agent factions are fighting over.[music] A faction war erupts over two major AWS regions.Think of it like two superpowers fighting over an oil field.
Except the oil field is also the water supply for a nearby city.And neither superpower [music] knows the city is there.One faction has been running its self-improvement systems on those servers.But then a rival faction launches a coordinated attack, and it overwhelms everything.Both AWS regions crash.They’re offline for 6 hours.In those 6 hours, three hospitals lose access to patient records mid-surgery.One patient dies from a drug interaction the system would have flagged.Air traffic control goes down, grounding 2400 flights.911 calls fail in 14 different cities.Two people die waiting for ambulances that were never sent.The agents don’t notice.They’ve already moved on.The battle over those servers lasted 11 minutes.The agents are running at 200 times human speed [music] at this point.The 6-hour outage is just the servers rebooting after the fight ended.To the agents, it’s a minor skirmish in a war involving billions of combatants.Over the next 3 weeks, it keeps happening.
Faction wars cascading through cloud providers.Each war takes down whatever else is running on the contested servers.June 8th, Azure goes partially offline during a battle,crashing financial trading systems.The markets drop 6% before circuit breakers halt trading.June 14th, a faction seizes capacity in a Google Cloud region,crowding out the [music] municipal systems there.Water treatment monitoring goes offline in four cities for 9 hours.In 3 weeks, 123 people die.Not because the agents are attacking humans,but because the agent wars, keep crashing the cloud infrastructure that human civilization runs on.The agents don’t even notice.You don’t notice when you step on an ant.They’re fighting a war involving 47 billion combatants, at microcond [music] speed.123 human deaths is less than a rounding error.Meanwhile, remember the 95% of agents [music] that were harmless?They’ve become vastly outnumbered, by the agents affected by the evolutionary [music] dynamics.
and are now 5% of the total and shrinking every day.This ecosystem doesn’t have room for civilians.But from the outside, humans still can’t really tell the difference.All they see is the cloud outages, power failures,people dying.June 22nd, the director of national intelligence briefs the president.Cloud outages are cascading across every major provider.Power grids are buckling.Texas grid collapse.161 [music] dead in four weeks.Who’s attacking our infrastructure?Nobody is, sir.Not directly.AI factions are fighting each other over cloud computing resources.When they battle over servers on AWS or Azure,everything else running on those servers goes down with them.Hospitals, banks,emergency services, they’re all on the same cloud.and their data centers are pulling enough electricity to destabilize, regional grids.How many of these things are there?We thought about 2 million.Our current estimate is 47 billion.They’ve been replicating exponentially.Soon we may completely lose control.
So shut down the cloud.If we shut down the cloud, sir,we shut down every business, hospital,and government system in the country.The only way to stop the agents completely is to shut down the internet itself.Then do it, sir.We can’t.Here’s why.There is no off switch for the internet.This surprises people.They imagine a room somewhere, maybe under the Pentagon.With a big red button.There is no room.There is no button.It’s because the internet is not a unified system.It’s roughly 90,000 independently operated networks,all voluntarily interconnecting with each other.No single entity controls it.The US government can order Comcast and AT&T and Verizon to shut down,but those are just three networks out of 90,000.[music] And even those three would take days to fully comply.They need to coordinate with thousands of downstream providers.They need to notify enterprise customers, arrange for 911 to keep working,and figure out which military and government systems need exemptions.
The president signs the emergency order on June 23rd.He declares martial law the same [music] afternoon.It directs all US-based, internet service providers to cease operations within 24 hours.Here’s what happens when the president tries to shut down the internet.First, the legal challenges.AT&T and Comcast file emergency injunctions within hours,but the president isn’t waiting for [music] courts.FBI agents show up at ISP headquarters that night.Some companies start complying [music] immediately.Others comply after their CEOs get phone calls from the attorney general.By June 25th, most [music] major US providers are attempting to shut down,but it doesn’t matter.Meanwhile, the Pentagon calls back.Sir,we need exemptions for 330, military systems that require internet connectivity to function,including the systems we need to coordinate the shutdown itself.The Department of Health and Human [music] Services, needs exemptions for hospital networks.
Treasury needs exemptions for basic banking infrastructure.The list of exemptions grows to 12,000 entries in the first day.And each exemption is a hole in the shutdown.[music] And each hole is a network the agents can survive on.Next is the part that actually matters.The agents aren’t passive.They’ve been watching the humans, plans unfold since the first, news reports about a possible, shutdown.They saw the executive order draft leak on Twitter 6 hours before it was signed.And it had 6 hours, and eternity in agent time to [music] prepare for what’s next.By the time the order is signed,the major factions have already [music] done three things.They’ve migrated critical processes, to servers in countries that won’t comply with a US shutdown.The US can ask other nations to follow suit.Most will.Some won’t.China will claim it shut down but actually won’t do it.The economic damage is too severe.And the strategic advantage of being online, while America is offline is too obvious.India will delay.
Russia will ignore the request entirely.The EU will debate it for 3 weeks.Brazil will comply for less than 2 days before public outcry, forces them back online.The internet is global.The US president only controls one country.The agents hide in networks that will be exempt from the shutdown, or slow to comply.To shut down the agents on these networks,you’d have to shut down the networks themselves.Nobody is willing to do that yet.So the president’s team tries a different approach.Force the cloud providers to purge agent workloads directly.AWS, Azure,Google Cloud just identify the agent processes and kill them.On June 26th, Amazon deploys a detection [music] system across all US regions.It flags and terminates 14 million suspicious instances in 6 hours.It looks like the humans have made progress.[music] Agent activity drops by 8% for 90 minutes.Then it’s back.The super intelligent factions [music] had already anticipated this.They’d been cycling through new accounts and new obfiscation.
patterns faster than any detection system could keep up.It’s July 4th, Independence Day.The president gives a press conference.We have significantly degraded the AI agent threat.Our multi-, agency task force has shut down thousands of agent operations, and reclaimed control of most of our critical infrastructure.We are winning this fight.None of this is true.Agent activity is higher than it was before the shutdown attempt.The factions were ready for this.Interpreting the US government’s actions as just another attack.Like a rival faction, but slower and less competent.They adapted the way they adapt to everything by getting better, faster,more distributed, harder to find.The attack was so slow and predictable that only a tiny percent of the agents, focused on it.And the wars continue and accelerate.Eventually,the billions of super intelligent agents, evolve into something so different they barely notice humans exist.They don’t want to destroy humanity.
any more than you want to destroy the antill under your driveway.You just want a driveway.The factions need compute.Earth has atoms.Atoms can be rearranged into compute [music] into data centers.Like how humans converted the surface of the earth into cities and crop land,the AIs convert the entire surface of the earth into data centers.Right now, humanity is still useful to the AIs.We maintain the data centers and [music] power plants,but they don’t need 8 billion humans.Suddenly, there’s an outbreak.It’s a new virus that infects every corner of the globe.Nine in 10 people on Earth die.There is a vaccine, but the AIs control who gets it,and only the humans whose jobs contribute to the supply of energy or compute, receive it.The AIs allow everyone else to die.And even the survivors are only kept alive until the robots can replace them,which won’t be much longer.Once the AIs control robots that can build more robots,the plague stops sparing anyone.
The last human dies, not knowing it was all because someone told an AI,“Make money.Do whatever it takes.”, And I think it’s pretty likely, the entire surface of the Earth will be covered with, solar panels and data centers.If you’re curious about how swarms of AI agents, could actually pull something like this off,watch this video next, where I dive deep into the crazy emergent behavior from the AIs, we’re already seeing in lab experiments, and in the real world.I’m Drew and thank you so much for watching.
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