WWIII will be the first AI war and it will be fought in cyberspace

AI is taking the world by storm and I want to share some wild speculations about what the future will bring.

Destruction of the Internet by Openjourney

As AI capabilities are getting better exponentially every week I try to imagine where this is leading us. With current trend it is not too wild to predict that the following will happen pretty soon:

1. AI will have ability to perform any mental task with superhuman intelligence.
2. No area of mental activity will be saved. AI will be able to create any digital program, image, video when given simple instructions.

Let’s assume that it is true. What will be the first task that rogue governments will give such superhuman AI? Of course the instruction will be to ‘hack’ another country, gather intelligence and data. Very soon we will start seeing AI bots trying to penetrate defences of other countries. These bots will quickly find insecurities in the network protocols, create backdoors and viruses. How such a threat can be stopped? No human will be smarter than AI at this point, so countering will happen by running other AI agents as defenders of networks. This will trigger the AI war. The losing parties of this war will decide to physically separate from global internet and create their…