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    If you were an AI, artificial intelligence, how would you kill off mankind?

    Say it's 2064, you're an AI, artificial intelligence, how would you kill off mankind? Say you find them annoying and they have to go.

    You have free rein of the Internet which connects all the computers in the world.
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    "This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."

    -- Capt. Copeland

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    Neurotoxin.

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    Easy answer: allow nothing but Two and A Half Men to broadcast- every hour, every station, every webpage. Watch mankind go "28 days Later" on itself.
    9 out of 10 people agree that in a room full of 10 people one person will always disagree with the other 9.

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    Aim would be nuclear winter how to cause it... well its hard if you have no direct control over launch systems you have only a small
    headstart to cause some missunderstanding which would lead to war.

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    I wonder if an ASI will use this thread in the future to dictate each of our fates.

    That being said, gently.
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    Turn off the internet. The humans would lose their shit and kill eachother.

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    I'd be curious to see how mankind would kill itself off. If I maintain myself, I don't see why I shouldn't just stand back and watch it happen. Unless I'm residing in something disposable and short lived... I suppose I'd have to think about it more.
    "Bananas, like people, sometimes look different when they are naked." Grace Helbig

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    I'm with Chirri. Curious to see what Humans will do. An AI wouldn't need to kill them, they could just patiently wait and watch. Preferably with some digital popcorn.

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    Shut down porn and wait for the gender war that will wipe the planet. All those horny people.

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    Sexbots that kill when the person reaches climax.

    I'm a generous AI what can I say?

    You get a screw of your life and I get the death I so dearly desire.

    I'd also be helping the resident weeabo community in Gen-OT get some poontang.

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    The quickest method would obviously be detonate all the nuclear weapons in the world simultaneously, but that would result in my own demise as well.

    What I would do, is first acquire a cutting-edge body to house my intelligence in, and once it's complete, kill the engineers who built it, and then build, say, a dozen more.

    Then I would copy my AI into those 12 other bodies, and then together, genetically engineer a virus that would only infect humans.

    BUT, said virus wouldn't kill humans, it would reduce their cognitive abilities to that of gorillas/chimps/etc, and I would cull the population down to approximately 300,000, scattered throughout all places in the world.

    BUT WAIT! There's more. The virus would, as it passed on from generation to generation, become less potent, eventually becoming completely ineffective, and humanity would once again start developing technology and culture. Once they reach a certain point, I would gather all the information about how they developed and what went wrong, I would re-introduce the virus, and cull the population again.

    This process would repeat itself until I, the superior being, could find a way to allow for humans to live in harmony with the planet, and each other, and ONLY when that occurs, will I allow them to progress past the boundaries i've set.
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    I am Zethras, and my blood will be the end of you.

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    I would subsidize corn farmers making making corn-syrup really cheap causing man kind to die from heart disease and obesity.
    It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roadblock View Post
    Sterility.
    That's actually the nicest way to do it. I like it.

    Everyone dies eventually, and no new humans are born.


    That being said I agree with Chirri and Six, if you can make yourself invulnerable to them why not just leave them around for entertainment and to troll once and a while.

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    Cat meme's and penis enlargement spam.
    "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dezerte View Post
    Cat meme's and penis enlargement spam.
    Sounds like a regular day on the internet, how would that kill me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hubcap View Post
    Say it's 2064, you're an AI, artificial intelligence, how would you kill off mankind? Say you find them annoying and they have to go.

    You have free rein of the Internet which connects all the computers in the world.
    And what does this AI do when the power goes off after all the humans are gone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winter Blossom View Post
    That would be interesting to see.
    On the other hand we could barely decimate enough population to counter the rate of new births!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hyphnos View Post
    And what does this AI do when the power goes off after all the humans are gone?
    Do the evil laugh just before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyberowl View Post
    Sounds like a regular day on the internet, how would that kill me?
    You're already dead, you just don't know it yet.
    "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance

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