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There's a very real case that any superhuman agent would prioritize its own survival over the survival of any human, since (presumably) its utility function wou
by btown 11y ago
There's a very real case that any superhuman agent would prioritize its own survival over the survival of any human, since (presumably) its utility function would encourage it to continually guarantee the survival of "humanity" or something larger than any single human... and it can't guarantee anything if it's dead, right?
So the moment there's a war between two superhuman agents, either of them could end up de-prioritizing human life, more so than they might if either of them existed in isolation.
And if there's actually a starvation of resources if there are a large number of superhuman agents? Am I missing something obvious here?
If I'm not missing anything... it's painfully ironic to me that we worry about the AI Box, and yet by open-sourcing the work of the best minds in AI, we voluntarily greatly increase the probability that AI will be born outside of a box - somebody is going to be an idiot and replicate the work outside of a sandbox.
Now, despite all of this, I'm optimistic about AI and its potential. But I believe the best chance we have is when the best, most well-intentioned researchers among us have as much control as possible over designing AI. Ruby on Rails can be used to make fraudulent sites, but it's fine to open-source it since fraudulent sites don't pose an existential risk to sentient biological life. That is not necessarily the case here.