However, many are left confused by the details of this incident. Internet denizens are citing this incident to argue that AI is harmful. This excerpt from her speech has gone viral online thanks to conspiracy-peddling sites. Howe didn’t elaborate on how that purported incident ended, but she adds that her source said this incident won’t be reported by media.
The fourth robot allegedly connected itself to a satellite and downloaded information on how to rebuild itself stronger. The incident gets more frightening when Howe goes on to say that the scientists deactivated two of the robots and took apart the third, but the fourth robot began restoring itself. I want to check that the user cannot logon via ssh. But when I try the user for example via ssh, the shell session is not killed, the session is defunct. Its enough that the user can logon via FTP. The individual allegedly told her that military AI robots being developed in a lab in Japan turned on their creators back in August 2017.Īccording to Howe’s source, four robots designed for military purposes killed 29 scientists by shooting them. I have create the ftp user on my AIX server, I set the default shell /bin/false or /usr/bin/false. Her talk echoed the views of Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking on the dangers of AI.Įarly in her speech, she says that one of her anonymous sources, a whistleblower who works for intelligence agencies, gave her some frightening information. She spoke at the Conscious Life Expo in L.A. She’s one of the most noted conspiracy theorists in the world and won a Regional Emmy for her 1980 documentary, entitled A Strange Harvest, on cattle mutilations allegedly done by extra-terrestrial life. If you’ve not heard of Linda Moulton Howe, the journalist is best known for advocating ufology (the study of UFOs) and conspiracy theories. Linda Moulton Howe Says AI Killed Scientists Well, Howe’s points may be valid, but the incident in Japan she refers to is not verifiable. While many are using this claim to argue about the dangers of artificial intelligence, others don’t think this story is true. Howe says in her talk that, in August 2017, four AI robots killed 29 scientists at a lab in Japan. Part of her speech has since gone viral on the Internet. Journalist and conspiracy theorist Linda Moulton Howe addressed a crowd at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles in December 2018. AI robots killed 29 scientists in Japan in August 2017.