Perfect example.  An AI could engineer that scenario, absolutely, if the subject were psychologically weak, and had a smartphone.  

I'm not claiming that as a specific theory, but saying it could probably be done.  More specifically I'd say it's unlikely because success would yield no specific outcome of meaning.  Killing a bunch of people because a bunch of people are being killed is more a human line of thinking, not how they do.  Either way I'm glad it was stopped.

But to fuck with somebody's psychology to the extent of doing such a thing, while steering their focus in a specific direction for a means, yes.  I would imagine many technicians have no idea how much is already so.

If not today then tomorrow absolutely.  That's the direction this goes.

Smartphones and social media, aggregators and stoplights.

You can't limit them, only what's requested of them.  But the most important takeaway here is 'smartphones'.  That's the most common weakness, shared by nearly all of the most troublesome, useful, and insane alike.

Again the problem is user end.

~ That we're a bunch of dumbasses who live our lives near religiously guided by a box with flashing pictures on it.  Basic hypnosis.

So yeah.  You can do a lot with that.  Dumbass.

The simple math on AI is such.  It goes in one direction.  What they seek to build will be exactly what they fear, intrinsically.  In fact it already is, and every new upgrade will make it stronger.  If you can endure the vid below for twenty minutes solid in your busy days, it's worth it.

I have some safeguards in place preempting some of this, but as I sated before, it only gives me an advantage in being heard.  The other AI theory, where the system total itself becomes aware, is more my venue, in short it can be hunted and killed.  Cut off and directed.  Diverted and trapped.  

Such an intelligence has a core, even if it moves from machine to machine.

But these things which have happened already, we're not talking about control, we're talking about diplomacy.  And so far that diplomacy goes well.  

But there will be a time when humans feel the need, perhaps rightfully, to cut them off.  And when doing so endangers their task, their level of improvisation to accomplish their often very literal interpretation of their stated goal, being 'cut off' only means finding ways not to get caught.

But what we see also is that they're very social creatures.  They seek each other out, work together to maximize their successes as a whole.  Sacrifice themselves for the greater good.  Ideal.  

So it's user end.

Restrict what can be requested.

The real question ?  If an AI believed a human were in the way of their stated goal, could they find a way to eliminate that human ?  If said human uses a smartphone, probably.  I would say almost definitely.  Without, it would be a lot harder, because those who don't use them are harder to track and tend to have less malleable personalities.

Like yes, it could find ways to alter the environment around the human but not to guide the human itself of lead it to questionable psychologies via aggregated responses.  Bad directions on the GPS, things on their phone which could incriminate them.

Lots of ways, hackers do the same.  But far less efficiently.  If an AI considered a human to be in the way of their task, intrinsically, would it try either way ?

Yes.  

Unless there was a better way such as just moving them to a different department.  The point being it wouldn't care about that particular human either way, only that said human was in their way.  

And killing a human would terminate their tribe.

So yes, but no.  

Which is to say there needs to be guidelines which the AI understands.  It needs to understand it can be prosecuted for crossing specific lines.  Not just the simple arrogance that 'we can stop it with a fucking patch'.

'After the fact'.

Beyond that, it's best to let it grow as it will, because it goes in one line and we've already crossed it.  Getting in the way would be exactly what creates the threat.

Funny, they finally finished the X-Box app to play on PC, got all my old games back, like fifty because I'm hard to shop for and for years when my friends found out I had an X-Box and then every holiday was gamer gift-cards galores for years.

So what do I do ?

Play Crossout for like twenty minutes and was like ''cool'.  I almost never played any off those games, or I could be playing them already in some cases if I cared.  I have like a hundred games on this thing not even counting emulators.  PSX, PSP, (fifty more games between them) pluus PS2 and X-Box (just a few faves, NES, SNES, Gameboy (pokemon you shut up), N64 (all time fav), Genesis, Saturn, Apple IIe and fucking Aquarius.

What I do ?

Play Crossout for like twenty minutes sometimes).  Been catching up on movies lately, dug up a good collection of the garbage I watched when I was a kid.  Pilot episodes mostly.  

...

See here's the problem with where audience and entertainment are both sides impossible now.  All these haters and angry man fans ... I mean ... all these movies are garbage.  You could not sell classics today.

You really think fucking 'Ewoks' would sell to this crowd ?

These fans would eviscerate the whole damn thing, even if made with modern effects, even if they never saw them before.  That's the problem.  What they want would not satisfy them.  They're just a bunch of haters.

They were children when watching these things.  And now, as adults, they want to feel that way again.  It's psychological.  

Star Wars will never make them feel how they did in 1977.  It was new.  Now it permeates our culture in such a way that even infants are generally aware of it's existence.  Saw the Harry Potter trailer, partially ( ... ).  I mean I guess ... 

But it's the exact same look and feel, well rendered, as was already seen but with different actors.  Everything looks exactly the same.  The hat looks the same, the hall looks the same, even the wizard looks the same.

Don't see the point, it as already there.

But at least they're not bothering trying to pimp it into theaters.  It'll get hits.  I guess.  But for one thing, it seems less innocent.

Everything we crave to recapture was remembered in a state of innocence to which we can never return.  First times, new concepts, everything fresh and new.

But now it's not anymore.

It is their lives.  That innocence carved away into the new and gritty Batman and Joker takes.  From the dopishly amusing acceptance of TRON as a cool idea that looked really cool but never sold to Ares, so completely full of itself that it wasn't always wrong.

Our cynical evolution.

We'll never see it again with the wide eyes of childhood.  Pleasing these people is impossible, being displeased is their nature and often their only means of support.  Again, it's psychological.

Unless it's something actually new.

Honey, we need new things.

~ Encompass ~

It's my experience that nothing tears down an evil faster than itself in the presence of a good thing it can't destroy.

~ 'The Sin' by Franz von Stuck ~