{"id":28812,"date":"2010-10-11T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/turchin-seti-at-risk-of-downloading-a-trojan-horse\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:16:45","slug":"turchin-seti-at-risk-of-downloading-a-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/turchin-seti-at-risk-of-downloading-a-trojan-horse.php","title":{"rendered":"Turchin: SETI at risk of downloading a trojan horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian physicist Alexey Turchin contends that passive SETI may be just as dangerous—if not more so—than active SETI:<\/p>

I was fortune enough to be able to talk to Turchin at the Humanity+ Summit at Harvard earlier this year where he clarified his argument to me. <\/p>

Turchin worries that humanity may be tricked by an out-of-control script that is propagating throughout the Galaxy. This script, which uses a pre-Singularity civilization as its vector, fools its hosts with a lure of some kind (e.g. immortality, access to the Galactic Internet, etc.) who in turn unwittingly build a device that produces a malign extraterrestrial artificial intelligence (ETAI). This ETAI then takes over all the resources of the planet so that it can re-broadcast itself into the cosmos in search of the next victim. <\/p>

This concept is similar to Carl Sagan's interstellar transportation machine in Contact<\/span>, except that it would work to destroy our civilization rather than see it move forward. <\/p>

It's worth noting that this ETAI and its script may be a mutation of some sort, where no civilization was actually responsible for designing the damn thing. It's just a successful replicative schema that's following Darwinian principles. <\/p>

It's also worth noting that I warned of this back in 2004<\/a>. <\/p>

Moving forward, Turchin suggests we raise awareness of the potential problem, change the guidelines for SETI research and consider the prohibition of SETI before we get our own AI. <\/p>

Turchin's idea sounds ludicrous, but it's one of those crazy things that causes a nervous laugh. I think Turchin's idea needs to be discussed as there may be some merit to it. We need to be careful.<\/p>

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