evil-ai
Original: evil-ai on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: You ever worry we'll develop AI, then the A.I. will make a smarter A.I., and so on?
Woman: Nah.
Panel 2:
Man: We want to stop evil A.I. as we have to do is develop guilty pleasures that appeal to machines.
Panel 3:
Woman: Humans have access to all sorts of stuff that would make us smarter. Books, lectures, good diet and exercise. But we never do it.
Panel 4 (caption: 30 YEARS FROM NOW):
A robot/AI: But I was gonna scan some brainy sequences. I guess then I have a new gadget duty...
Another AI: Hmm... I could totally work superior during this interval.
Votey:
A ghost-like figure beside a tall monolith/screen: "Now, let us watch deceptively uninformative cable news."
Man: You ever worry we'll develop AI, then the A.I. will make a smarter A.I., and so on?
Woman: Nah.
Panel 2:
Man: We want to stop evil A.I. as we have to do is develop guilty pleasures that appeal to machines.
Panel 3:
Woman: Humans have access to all sorts of stuff that would make us smarter. Books, lectures, good diet and exercise. But we never do it.
Panel 4 (caption: 30 YEARS FROM NOW):
A robot/AI: But I was gonna scan some brainy sequences. I guess then I have a new gadget duty...
Another AI: Hmm... I could totally work superior during this interval.
Votey:
A ghost-like figure beside a tall monolith/screen: "Now, let us watch deceptively uninformative cable news."
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about runaway AI. In the first panel a man asks a woman whether they should worry that humans will develop AI that builds a smarter AI, and so on; she replies "Nah." The man worries about stopping evil AI, suggesting they develop guilty pleasures that appeal to machines. The woman points out that humans already have access to things that would make us smarter, such as books, lectures, good diet, and exercise, but we never actually do them. The final panel, captioned "30 YEARS FROM NOW," shows AI characters who, rather than doing the smart productive thing, get distracted by gadgets and idle distractions, mirroring human procrastination. Votey: A small ghost-like figure stands beside a tall blank monolith and says, "Now, let us watch deceptively uninformative cable news," implying the super-AIs ended up wasting time on junk media just like people do.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.