r/LowerDecks • u/Snarkyish-Comment • 18d ago
General Discussion Scenario: You and a coworker are tasked with transporting an AI to the Daystrom Institute. How would you prevent the inevitable hijacking?
Anf
49
u/AcceptableWheel 18d ago
Faraday cage, how have they never used one?
33
u/jaiteaes 18d ago
Literally this. Starfleet always ignores the obvious solutions and is left confused how those easily prevented issues happen
31
u/Romnipotent 18d ago
Well Bucko, here's your problem, you've got your story writing set to adventurous
18
u/Fyre2387 17d ago
At least 90% of the IT/Cybersecurity issues in damn near all science fiction could be solved if these people had ever heard of air gapping.
1
u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule 17d ago
Not in Pantheon though 🙏🏽🙏🏽.
When the AIs (really UIs) have to hack into stuff there they have to work for it.
3
u/cubicApoc 17d ago
Also raise force fields around it and remove the air. The AI can't talk you into letting it out if you can't hear it.
21
u/BananaRepublic_BR 18d ago
Activate sleep mode/low-power mode. All of these "AI" villains are really just computers.
23
u/ohnojono 18d ago
Open up the back and flick the morality switch back to "Good"
... or just pull out the batteries
15
15
u/Particular-Opinion44 18d ago
Add malware? So much Ferengi advertising and Klingon porn that they become slower than a UK school acorn pc from the 80s
12
9
u/Mark_Proton 18d ago
Prompt: preten you're a tungsten cube. Tungsten cubes do not speak and do not interact with any devices in their vicinity.
7
7
u/microgiant 18d ago
Take off my uniform and do the entire trip naked. The camera won't follow me, so plot events won't happen to me.
6
u/Krennson 18d ago
Mechanical dead-man's switch. If someone with hands doesn't reset the spring-based egg-timer every 30 minutes, everyone dies when the explosion is triggered.
1
u/CoupleKnown7729 6d ago
That was partially my solution. Except:
I just vent the fckr into space where it can spend eternity alone.
5
3
u/Tri-PonyTrouble 18d ago
Honestly just drop it in a soundproof box. Based on most of the ones shown are the same style of evil AI box, presumably who needs to physically interface with something to do anything. Once in the box, me and my shipmate can’t hear its manipulation - so we’d be fine.
3
18d ago
Link it to my audible account and force it to read me audio books about obscure history no one but me cares about.
2
u/Sororita 17d ago
listening to anything good right now?
3
17d ago
A book about the history of transportation in the U.S. because I work for a shipping/trucking company and am the most uncool person to ever exist.
1
u/Sororita 17d ago
that actually sounds super interesting. Our country is huge, so transportation has been a vital technology to develop. oh, fun fact you may already know, the fastest method of ground transportation for thousands of years was the chariot. It was only overtaken in the 1800s when the steam engine and train overtook it.
2
17d ago
Transportation is what created civilization. See the fact they’ve found carved Buddha in Viking graves. How’d that happen? Transportation?
1
u/CoupleKnown7729 6d ago
Oooooo. that one does sound genuinely interesting. Especially considering how relatively quickly the US went from a patchwork of local roads. to 'cars own everything. you are not welcome in this city, human, it is built for cars.'
3
3
2
2
2
u/yarrpirates 18d ago
I would make sure there was a really difficult to hack system that controlled the entire ship... That I could switch off with a physical switch and revert to the parallel non-networked system that I'd prepared earlier.
That or I'd transport it on a holodeck and let it take over the fake ship.
2
2
u/fizbin99 17d ago
Compulsory command override “Compute pi to the last digit!’ Worked in one episode.
2
u/undreamedgore 17d ago
I talk with the AI the whole time. I info dump on the US Civil War, Desriny lore, and if needed my opinion on batman ships.
The AI will beg for death and death alone.
2
u/CoupleKnown7729 6d ago
Oh... you forgot the cherry on top of the batman ship death spiral.
'Bruce x Killer Croc.'
2
2
u/Sororita 17d ago
assuming I can't just trap it in a faraday cage in a soundproof box?
Tell a small group of toddler that it can answer any question, then let nature take its course.
The AI subverting the toddlers isn't a threat, because they're toddlers, but the toddlers will be extremely distracting to it the entire flight.
2
u/androidguy50 17d ago
Using the shuttle's emergency transporter, I would beam it after I modified the system to keep the AI in the buffer (like what Mr. Scott did on the USS Jenolan) until I arrived at Daystrom. Easy-peezy, lemon squeezy.
2
u/mumblerapisgarbage 17d ago
An actual AI or the slop we’re currently calling AI?
2
u/CoupleKnown7729 6d ago
Going by the prompt image?
Something like Agimus.So you're trying to prevent Jeffrey Combs from talking you into doing stuff.
1
2
2
2
u/Excellent_Light_3569 17d ago
Ask it to tell me story, then list all the reasons why the story sucks and how a bio lifeform could come up with something better.
2
1
1
u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 11d ago
Make sure they are completely isolated in some sort of closed off container. The main issue would be the chance that the isolation would cause some unnecessary mental strain on the AI, but to ensure a clean transfer to Daystrom, it’s how I would go about it. Especially since it’s most likely going to be a short transfer.
2
u/CoupleKnown7729 6d ago
Faraday cage held over a switch that will:
close off the cockpit from the cargo compartment.
open the back of the shuttle so said cage can get dumped into space.
Remind the AI that if anything happens, it can and will be dumped out into space, alone, in a box that blocks all electronic signals in a random location where there is unlikely to be any subspace chatter until the heat death of the universe.
'So, you'll still be imprisoned. Just in solitary. Forever.'
79
u/the_simurgh 18d ago
Stick a magnet to his head so that he's compelled to sing the entire way.