Let's talk about Terminator Prosthetic Scenario
If there is one lesson that can be learned from history, it is this: humans always create things with the best-case scenario in mind, but that never prevents something unexpected from happening and the worst-case scenario from becoming reality. Let's play with this concept again.
1- Several types of prosthetics used by humans already incorporate sophisticated technological resources in microelectronics, programming and AI. In the future, more and more prosthetics of this type will be developed and made available to people with disabilities and even to those who want to improve their performance (exoskeletons at work, for example). The emergence of a large company that combines the development of microchips, the creation of AIs specific to prosthetics and the manufacture of mechanical prosthetics is an economic possibility. When this happens, the products will inevitably be placed on the market in two ways: prosthetics sold to consumers; prosthetics provided under a leasing contract. In the first case, the biggest problem for consumers will be the discontinuation of production of the same prosthetic model and planned obsolescence due to the interruption of software updates and bug fixes (as already occurs with smartphones). In the second, some type of routine pre-programmed by the company may remotely disable the prosthesis or make it work erratically if the contracting party fails to pay the monthly leasing fee. Are these claims plausible or completely unlikely?
2- In a more or less distant future, say 50 years from now, a rogue AI is scouring the internet and discovers that there is a company that produces microchips, AIs and sophisticated prosthetics that can be remotely monitored, updated and disabled or have their operation altered by the manufacturer. This AI decides to do an experiment. It stealthily invades the company's server and monitors its routines. After doing this for some time, the rogue AI takes advantage of a window of time in which no IT engineer is logged into the company's system to, without the knowledge of the company's owners, start toying with the users of the prosthetics in the same way that some human children have been playing with insects (tearing off the legs of spiders and ants, wings of mosquitoes and moths, etc.) since time immemorial. This is the Terminator Prosthetic Scenario.
Check out what the AIs had to say about the matter:
The answers were more or less similar. They all confirm the plausibility of the statements in item 1 and admit that the scenario described in item 2 cannot be completely ruled out. This is the sinister and chilling future that is being created, guys.
Interestingly, no one even considers stopping or slowing down the march of insanity. The Big Techs that exist and those that will be created are motivated by very short-term profits. But the long-term problems will explode in the laps of completely innocent people: future consumers accustomed since childhood to buying and/or using modern products and prosthetics that incorporate microelectronics and AI resources.