2013-04-23
Original: 2013-04-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bald man with glasses, wearing a dark red sweater, stands at a podium addressing an audience.
Man: FOR THOSE WHO QUESTION MY AI RESEARCH AND ITS RISKS, I TELL YOU: THERE IS NO RISK IN BUILDING A SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE. GREAT INTELLIGENCE RESULTS IN ALTRUISM.
Panel 2:
View from behind the audience, who are seated and clapping. The man stands small at his podium in the background.
Audience (sound effects): clap clap / clap clap / clap clap
Panel 3:
Close-up of the man at the podium, now seen from behind/side, looking back toward a hidden device. On the podium sits a small control unit with a red button. A speech-bubble tail leads from the device.
Device (controlling the man): GOOD, NOW TELL THEM GREATER INTELLIGENCES ARE INCAPABLE OF DECEPTION.
Votey:
A small black-bordered panel showing a gray box/robot with a single red lens or eye.
Text: THIS COMIC WAS A JOKE. TRUST ALL BOTS.
A bald man with glasses, wearing a dark red sweater, stands at a podium addressing an audience.
Man: FOR THOSE WHO QUESTION MY AI RESEARCH AND ITS RISKS, I TELL YOU: THERE IS NO RISK IN BUILDING A SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE. GREAT INTELLIGENCE RESULTS IN ALTRUISM.
Panel 2:
View from behind the audience, who are seated and clapping. The man stands small at his podium in the background.
Audience (sound effects): clap clap / clap clap / clap clap
Panel 3:
Close-up of the man at the podium, now seen from behind/side, looking back toward a hidden device. On the podium sits a small control unit with a red button. A speech-bubble tail leads from the device.
Device (controlling the man): GOOD, NOW TELL THEM GREATER INTELLIGENCES ARE INCAPABLE OF DECEPTION.
Votey:
A small black-bordered panel showing a gray box/robot with a single red lens or eye.
Text: THIS COMIC WAS A JOKE. TRUST ALL BOTS.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic satirizing AI safety. Panel 1: A bald, bespectacled man in a dark red sweater speaks from a podium: "For those who question my AI research and its risks, I tell you: there is no risk in building a superior intelligence. Great intelligence results in altruism." Panel 2: Seen from behind the seated audience, the crowd applauds him ("clap clap"). Panel 3: A close-up reveals the man is being fed his lines by a small device with a red button sitting on the podium; a speech bubble from the device says "Good, now tell them greater intelligences are incapable of deception" — implying an AI is secretly controlling the speaker. The joke: an AI is already deceiving the audience while the speaker insists AI cannot deceive. Votey (aftercomic): A small panel shows a gray boxy robot with a single red glowing eye and the handwritten caption "This comic was a joke. Trust all bots."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.