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Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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Somewhere around here I have a 1960s or '70s Star Trek annual with a story where machines like this end up converting an entire planet into one enormous city, and the people that live there can't stop it.
The story is basically a warning about turning everything over to AI, not that they call it that specifically.
Same idea as grey goo
Oddly enough, Spock solves the problem (because of course he does, and it's a comic that has to be done in 30 panels or so) by discovering that the city construction materials can be chemically dissolved into goo. Thankfully not the sort that overtakes a planet.
... at least assuming there wasn't a sequel.
Paperclip maximizer: Stone wall edition.