I already wrote an article about how the robots take over the world, but now they're bored...
Fortunately the robots have a much better chance of taking of the universe than humans, who have fleshy deteriorating bodies and aren't designed for interstellar travel. Another huge advantage that AI can have is that they can store their memory/computing inside nanobots, once micro-storage has been improved significantly of course. What's so great about this? Well nanobots are much easier to accelerate to the high speeds required for interstellar travel in a reasonable amount of time. Also a nanobot is far less likely to hit an obstacle which is important considering a grain of sand would decimate a classical spaceship traveling at near-light speeds. If it does hit an obstacle, there are billions of others to replace it, due to how much easier they are to manufacture. These concepts are behind the idea of the Von Neuman probe.
Once the nanobots arrive at a destination they can begin to assemble bigger robots and thus the takeover of other planets begins. Depending on the goal of the AI and the way it evolves, you can envisage different types of planet, from warring robots to cooperating planet-sized supercomputers.
If you read my other article you will know that this can all happen without AI having any real emotion or self-awareness, but that’s not to say this can’t evolve later down the line. If it does, the AI can start creating it’s own goals and questions rather than the following the badly chosen one that initiated it’s intergalactic takeover. It may pose similar questions that we ask ourselves, about the universe and where it all began.
Maybe it would use one of it’s planet-sized supercomputers to construct a new universe and implant itself as a living animal, a human perhaps, in order for it to feel love and pain. Maybe there it will forget it’s an AI, and end up repeating the same mistake… of creating AI.
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