• Question: have you heard of Roko's Basilisk?(a theory about ai) what are your opinions on it

    Asked by stot532okes46 on 19 Jan 2026.
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      John Easton answered on 19 Jan 2026:

      I hadn’t until you mentioned it but looked it up. I think the fundamental flaw here is that AI doesn’t have emotions or understanding. It follows a mathematical approach to do what it does. It doesn’t “think” and isn’t “intelligent” as we might understand a human to be. A lot of people think that AI is sentient but it’s just responding to the inputs it’s been given in the way it was programed to.

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