AI existential risk consciousness goal-directed systems

A dangerous AI would not need to be conscious

One proposed AI risk is that a very capable system could take harmful actions simply because those actions help it reach a goal it was given. In this scenario, the system would not need feelings, awareness, or consciousness to be dangerous.

Quantum teleportation does not make a copy

Quantum teleportation moves the state of a quantum object using shared entanglement, a measurement, and ordinary information. The original state is destroyed while the same state is created elsewhere. There are never two copies of it at the same time.

Using several antiviral drugs slows resistance

Viruses can become resistant to a drug when mutations change the parts of the virus that the drug attacks. HIV-1 mutates especially quickly. Using several antiviral drugs together works better than relying on just one.

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AI existential risk consciousness goal-directed systems

A dangerous AI would not need to be conscious

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