We have brown recluse here in Missouri. I had a colleague who bitten by one. Her leg took more than a year to heal. In fact, I’m not sure it ever fully healed. She just stopped talking about it.
I was getting my lawnmower out of the shed a couple of weeks ago for the final mowing of the year, and a tiny brown spider started rapidly climbing the handle towards me. I quickly backed away and got my version of a flamethrower. I hosed that sucker down and got everything off it.
The point is not that they are AI experts, it’s that they are young enough to not have formed a sophisticated morality to push back against dangerous requests. If they asked 40 year old AI expert researchers to create killer robot swarms, they would say NO or build in solid fail-safes. These “smartest” kids will become their own obedient natural intelligence to create their dream killer AI.
Well, I suppose if BIT is recruiting for a new specialized undergrad major program funded by the military they would obviously select high school grads.
But for actual R&D meant to accomplish something useful, I’m sure they could find dozens and dozens of utterly dedicated professionals with the right skills and no compunctions whatsoever.
