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0 pointscausality03y ago0 comments

That's gonna be great until someone hacks it and has it stab me to death in my sleep.

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Much like my fears about bluetooth connected cars being hacked to crash on the highway, it turns out that - by and large - nobody wants to kill me (or at least, not badly enough to do anything about it).

notart6663y ago

Ah yes the nobody wants to do it to me excuse. Until you piss off the wrong person and you suddenly crash into the railing and die in an 'accident'.

In a more Orwellian world. It can be used to assassinate dissidents or individuals who speak out against authoritarian regimes. It's just a tool in a box, but it's one that's simple, easy to use, and leaves no evidence.

codetrotter3y ago

> leaves no evidence

For a “car crash” I agree.

But if my laundry folding robot stabs me to death in my sleep, I hope that at the very least it raises some eyebrows :^)

tylervigen3y ago

But that’s true with or without the AI. Anyone could decide they want to kill you. Most of the time we rely on “not everyone wanting to kill everyone else” to get by.

burnished3y ago

Oh, Ada Palmer’s ‘Too Like The Lightning’ has this as an element.

ROTMetro3y ago

I always felt like the HL7 interface is a huge vector for this. Change someone's medicine allergies, blood type, etc.

brookst3y ago

Truly the most evil hacker is the one that leaves you to live out your life until old age and decrepitude catch up with you.

_Algernon_3y ago

The thing about black swan events is they never seem likely to happen until they do.

qbrass3y ago

They can't get bluetooth to connect.

tryauuum3y ago

just unplug the robot before you go to sleep, an easy solution

seanw4443y ago

More worried about government backdoors.

kache_3y ago

cars are great until someone deliberately runs into me

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