That used to be case before AI. Faulty hardware or coding used to be reason behind malfunctions and I remember a case in which a computer calculated the results of an election wrong and after a lot of investigation, they came to the conclusion that a cosmic ray or something like that actually flipped a bit in the system.
- The 2003 Belgium Election: A candidate mysteriously gained exactly 4,096 votes (2¹²) because a single bit flipped in a binary vote counter. []
- Super Mario 64 Glitches: Speedrunners attribute rare, unexplainable character teleportation or "upwarps" to random space particles hitting the console's memory. [, ]
- Flight Control Systems: High-altitude aircraft face increased radiation; incidents like a 2025 JetBlue unexpected altitude drop have been linked to radiation-induced bit flips
That's a great subject for a debate and I think humanity will be going down that rabbit hole soon
Yeah, AI could definitely be the biggest game changer in human history but first, we have to make sure we can control it 100%. It's too much of a powerful thing to have any flaws that can make it turn against us.