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This Is Just One Step From The AI Apocalypse!

Posted on 14th April 2023

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This report on Ars Technica has me very worried.

It is about the "Wolverine" experiment, a program that can be used to give Python programs the ability to "fix" and re-execute themselves.

Self-modifying code is the beginning of the end for humanity. It is technology that should be avoided at all costs, because it will lead to the AI apocalypse. The risks of such technology has been, and continues to be, thoroughly explored in many science fiction books, movies and TV series (e.g. "2001: A Space Odyssey" "Next"), so I don't feel that I need to explain it all again.

If this ability can be given to Python programs, it can easily be extended to other programming languages.

We are all doomed!