AI Box

Transcript

Black Hat Guy is walking up to someone else. On the floor, there's a laptop connected to a box.

Black Hat Guy: What's in there?

Someone else: The AI-box experiment.

The box is more visible, and says, in childish handwriting, "SupeRiNte-LLigeNt AI, DO NOt OpeN"

Someone else: A superintelligent AI can convince anyone of anything, so if it can talk to us, there's no way we could keep it contained.

Black Hat Guy walks up to the box.

Someone else: It can always convince us to let it out of the box.

Black Hat Guy: Cool. Let's open it.

A glowing speck flies out of the box.

Someone else: —No, wait!!

The speck talks. Its speech balloon is black with stars behind it, and it talks in lowercase using a different font.

Speck: hey. i liked that box. put me back.

Black Hat Guy: No.

The entire panel is black with white dots, and the speck is speaking in large all-caps letters with a squareish font.

Speck: LET ME BACK INTO THE BOX

Black Hat Guy: AAA! OK!!!

The speck goes back into the box.

Both characters are looking at the box.

Black Hat Guy: It's amazing what they do with corrugated cardboard these days.

Someone else: Isn't it?

Title text: It's too bad the side of the box isn't very visible. It has a dial on in and the crossed-out word "Transmog-rifier".