The OpenAI CEO and ChatGPT creator Sam Altman is always accompanied on his travels by a distinctive blue backpack. In it, he carries a MacBook to shut down his own AI creation anytime and from anywhere in the world, should it turn against us humans.
A world without artificial intelligence is no longer conceivable today. In many situations, especially in daily work, AI increasingly takes over unpopular tasks from us.
However, particularly self-learning systems could become a serious threat in the future, provided the current rapid development continues.
Uprising of the machines?
What danger threatens us? The boundaries between reality and science fiction blur a little more each day. It may still sound a bit far-fetched that artificial intelligences developed by us humans could turn against their creators and want to destroy them.
But it is not surprising that even today we involuntarily think of apocalyptic scenarios with Skynet from the movie Terminator .
One of those who fears such a machine uprising the most is Sam Altman, the inventor of ChatGPT. For him, a rampaging AI is the absolute nightmare, as reported by the site 3D Juegos.
Therefore, Altman has made preparations to be able to act in such an extreme case at any time.
A blue backpack as a last resort against rogue AI
How can a backpack save humanity from extinction? At the moment when computers take control, Sam Altman always has his blue backpack at hand and can save the world from an AI rebellion against us humans.
With his MacBook in the backpack, Sam Altman has the ability to put an end to his creation with the press of a button from anywhere on Earth and shut down the servers of ChatGPT.
The “blue backpack” has become a legend on social media in recent months: It is now nicknamed the “nuclear backpack”.
While some fear: With all the attention, the AI may have already learned about the backpack and its significance.
We hope it will never come to that, but one cannot deny that ChatGPT is effectively embedded in the minds of the people with this story.
What do you think? Are artificial intelligences a serious threat?
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