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Artifical Intelligence. Will it kill cancer, or will it kill us all first.

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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 09:22

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0031979/newsnight-could-ai-kill-us-all-by-the-end-of-the-decade?seriesId=unsliced&page=2


When I saw Newsnight last night, I couldn't believe the threat of AI. At first, I thought it was some sort of BBC prank, like when Panorama, one April Fools Day, broadcast that spaghetti grew on trees.


I suppose many of us have looked at the predicted mortality rates of various levels of our disease. To be told that there's a 10% chance, whether you've got cancer or not, that you'll be a goner in 10 years, is a little disconcerting. 😱

Edited by member 10 Sep 2026 at 11:14  | Reason: Additional text

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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 12:31

Saw that - quite disturbing.  Where is Arnie when you need him!


 


On the other hand there was some really interesting news in The Times this morning about researchers establishing specific genetic links to prostate cancer.  The development of this discovery will hopefully be a more individually targeted response to the disease rather than the more general one-size fits all approach.  No doubt advances of this type will be supported by AI.  A necessary evil?


(Writing this sat in a hospital waiting room ahead of my pre-op assessment for hernia surgery - can’t seem to stay away from the place!)

Edited by member 10 Sep 2026 at 12:32  | Reason: Not specified

Best wishes - stay positive


CeePee

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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 13:08

I listened the piece on Radio 4 about it Adrian. 


Looks like taking out that 15 year rust warranty might have been a waste of money. 


If you think about it, we spend more money on better ways to kill each other than we do on fixing ourselves. 


Maybe the machines have a point, you idiots dont deserve to be in charge here, lets get rid and leave it to the animals. 


Hopefully the computers will publish a reliable end date for civilisation so we can all spend up before the big day.


Im rooting for computers, after all, they will need at least one person avaliable to try turning it off and turning it on again...might as well be me. 


Mick 


 

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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 13:34
Hasta la vista Adi 😎😎💪
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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 18:13

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
Hasta la vista Adi 😎😎💪


😂 I'd never let that Termination 2 give me a DRE with an index finger that he could morph into a 3 feet long metal sword.

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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 18:31
Possibly the female one maybe 🤣🤣
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Posted 11 Sep 2026 at 00:09
With AI, vast bits of information are held and this increases every day. This means that by storing so many options, outcomes in some areas/tasks/results are better than man can arrive at. An example was 'Intellgence' beating the World's top Chess player. But I don't see this as intelligence. It was just selecting the known options programmed into the '*'to beat opposing moves. In a less simplistic way, Robots perform tasks in factories programmed by men in factories and industry with sensors stopping or changing directions in an ever more sufficiated way. Driverless cars are an example. Eventually, people driving will cause more accidents. But do you consider this as intelligence? As regards medicine, we know that AI can quickly compare and evaluate results but unless told so will not of itself evaluate something found at the bottom of the sea as a medical breakthrough unless instructed to do so. As far as I am aware, Robots cannot analyse feelings as people can, even if they can jump higher, run faster and for longer. They do as instructed. Some have been armed and actually used to fire at the enemy and it is likley that will be further developed.

So Robots will take over certain works and displace people as machines did during and after the Industrial Revolution but I don't think they will be sufficiently advanced of their own volition, to turn against mankind as a whole, as sometimes depicted in films. Man might use 'them' or 'it' to decimate populations just like any other advanced weapon that has been adopted aggressively. Sadly, some aggressive traits in man persist to this day. One could say 'AI' could be used as a weapon of war but that applies to other things too, Nuclear Weapns for example. I think 'AI' is more likely to be used to disrupt and cause problems just like we experience presently but to a greater extent It has the potential to be good and lead to advances in a number of fields. So let's look on the optimistic side.
Barry
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Posted 11 Sep 2026 at 23:52

What we need to know is AI male or female? You can't be saying things like mankind or man anymore Old Barry, or we are done for by woke humans nevermind AI! 😂

Edited by member 12 Sep 2026 at 00:35  | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 12:31

Saw that - quite disturbing.  Where is Arnie when you need him!


 


On the other hand there was some really interesting news in The Times this morning about researchers establishing specific genetic links to prostate cancer.  The development of this discovery will hopefully be a more individually targeted response to the disease rather than the more general one-size fits all approach.  No doubt advances of this type will be supported by AI.  A necessary evil?


(Writing this sat in a hospital waiting room ahead of my pre-op assessment for hernia surgery - can’t seem to stay away from the place!)

Edited by member 10 Sep 2026 at 12:32  | Reason: Not specified

Best wishes - stay positive


CeePee

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Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 13:08

I listened the piece on Radio 4 about it Adrian. 


Looks like taking out that 15 year rust warranty might have been a waste of money. 


If you think about it, we spend more money on better ways to kill each other than we do on fixing ourselves. 


Maybe the machines have a point, you idiots dont deserve to be in charge here, lets get rid and leave it to the animals. 


Hopefully the computers will publish a reliable end date for civilisation so we can all spend up before the big day.


Im rooting for computers, after all, they will need at least one person avaliable to try turning it off and turning it on again...might as well be me. 


Mick 


 

User
Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 13:34
Hasta la vista Adi 😎😎💪
User
Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 18:13

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
Hasta la vista Adi 😎😎💪


😂 I'd never let that Termination 2 give me a DRE with an index finger that he could morph into a 3 feet long metal sword.

User
Posted 10 Sep 2026 at 18:31
Possibly the female one maybe 🤣🤣
User
Posted 11 Sep 2026 at 00:09
With AI, vast bits of information are held and this increases every day. This means that by storing so many options, outcomes in some areas/tasks/results are better than man can arrive at. An example was 'Intellgence' beating the World's top Chess player. But I don't see this as intelligence. It was just selecting the known options programmed into the '*'to beat opposing moves. In a less simplistic way, Robots perform tasks in factories programmed by men in factories and industry with sensors stopping or changing directions in an ever more sufficiated way. Driverless cars are an example. Eventually, people driving will cause more accidents. But do you consider this as intelligence? As regards medicine, we know that AI can quickly compare and evaluate results but unless told so will not of itself evaluate something found at the bottom of the sea as a medical breakthrough unless instructed to do so. As far as I am aware, Robots cannot analyse feelings as people can, even if they can jump higher, run faster and for longer. They do as instructed. Some have been armed and actually used to fire at the enemy and it is likley that will be further developed.

So Robots will take over certain works and displace people as machines did during and after the Industrial Revolution but I don't think they will be sufficiently advanced of their own volition, to turn against mankind as a whole, as sometimes depicted in films. Man might use 'them' or 'it' to decimate populations just like any other advanced weapon that has been adopted aggressively. Sadly, some aggressive traits in man persist to this day. One could say 'AI' could be used as a weapon of war but that applies to other things too, Nuclear Weapns for example. I think 'AI' is more likely to be used to disrupt and cause problems just like we experience presently but to a greater extent It has the potential to be good and lead to advances in a number of fields. So let's look on the optimistic side.
Barry
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Posted 11 Sep 2026 at 22:49

Haha no chance. Just turn the water off to the server rooms and that will be the end of AI. Unless AI can make water which I doubt it can. Remember the millennium bug 😂

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Posted 11 Sep 2026 at 23:52

What we need to know is AI male or female? You can't be saying things like mankind or man anymore Old Barry, or we are done for by woke humans nevermind AI! 😂

Edited by member 12 Sep 2026 at 00:35  | Reason: Not specified

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Posted 13 Sep 2026 at 02:19

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member


What we need to know is AI male or female? You can't be saying things like mankind or man anymore Old Barry, or we are done for by woke humans nevermind AI! 😂



Leave the French to decide that. They seem to have a "le, la or les" for everything.


I agree that some of the names and terms we ascribed to certain people and nations in the past (even in my lifetime) are wrong,  However, there is a minority who want to remove everyday words relating to gender etc which goes beyond reason but I don't think they will pose a threat to our security as AI might do, even if they manage to add and subtract a few word to vocabulary and everyday parlance.


This Forum caters for all, regardless of what gender they are or how they consider themselves and the foregoing is not meant or intended to be slight on them.  


Barry


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

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