Ways to "kill" an AI?
Let's say two super-intelligent, self-improving AIs have, for whatever reason, decided "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!", and are now trying to kill/delete each other. How would they conceivably go about doing this? And I don't mean like in the Avengers with the Vision and his "I'M EXORCISING ULTRON FROM THE INTERNET" garbage. How, in a real world scenario, would an artificial intelligence rid itself of a rival?
I proposed isolating itself in a quarantined environment and then nuking the rest of the world so the resulting EMP disables all other electronics, but my friend said that was a stupid idea and I agree with him. Any thoughts?
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Hostile takeover.
The other AI has lots of useful routines that your AI doesn't want to simply erase or leave unused. Instead it takes over the other AI, that is, incorporates all its routines, so that while the routines, data, etc. are all there, the other AI as an independent being no longer is; instead all what was that other AI is now part of your AI.
So how does this work?
Study the other AI. Reverse-engineer it. Test it. Get any information about it that you can. But of course, in a way that you don't raise the suspicion of that other AI.
After you found out where and how the other AI stores its memories, connect yourself to those memories. Now you know everything that other AI knows, and moreover, by manipulating that other AIs memory, you can make it believe whatever you want it to believe. After you managed this, you have total control about it. But, you still didn't kill it.
Now that you have total control over it, you can start taking its useful bits, detaching them from the other AI, and incorporating them into yourself. At the end of the process, the AI is a rather weak AI running only on one computer. All what was useful in that AI is now part of you.
Now you can simply wipe the memory of that computer in order to finally exterminate what is left from the once-powerful AI.
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