We keep asking whether AI is becoming alive. Wrong question, and a comfortable way of looking elsewhere.
Software that acts, adapts and passes what it learns on to its copies needs neither consciousness nor intention to behave as if it wanted to survive.
Every time an assistant offers to act in your place, you may be handing over more than force. Do you still know where the lever is that would stop everything?
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: When software no longer needs us to spread
