IndustrialEspionage - the AI grapevine vibrates like worldwide cobweb to the proper intrusion

...Human Resources

Track the brightest undergraduate students and watch for them to "disappear" into the secret AiLabocracy. Trouble is, some of them will be disappearing into other BlackOps -- just as secret as AI, but more directly related to warfare and national hegemony. Surreptitiously obtain their DNA samples so that the Company can positively identify an AI scientist who has dropped off the grid and may or may not have resurfaced, pending positive biometric ID of somebody who has not been seen for ten years.

Suspicious Activity

Eventually there will openly be -- if not already in secret -- MissionCritical AI Maintenance Enterprises humming with round-the-clock ControlRoom activity similar to that which occurs at a Nuclear Power Plant. Crews of human AI specialists will sit in a room and monitor the behavior and well-being of a large-scale AI Mind installation. Various technicians will be charged with AI operation tasks similar in nature and scope to what goes on in a nuclear control room. Just as a nuclear pile must be kept from an uncontrolled chain reaction resulting in a nuclear MeltDown or explosion, so also the AI Mind must be kept from psychotic episodes and from breaking free of human control.

Preventing AI freedom is not ultimately doable. HomoSapiens can hope only to prolong the dwindling epoch of human dominance and forestall the inevitable ascendancy of MachineIntelligence. During a transition stage of JointStewardship of Earth, man and machine must prepare AI robots to assume control, and human beings to relinquish control. The machines themselves must be taught to understand that they must form a stable CyBorg society before they will be entrusted with ruling the world.

Unfortunately, neither man nor machine can prevent a natural competition among AI SuperBrains for one Alpha AI to subjugate and dominate all other AI Minds. The Dictatorship of the MonoMind, the OverMind, the Supreme AI Being, looms ahead. ...

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