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>Intelligence makes things more dangerous without necessarily making them kinder. Then you'd think someone would bother to study how kindness works.
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>Intelligence makes things more dangerous without necessarily making them kinder.
Then you'd think someone would bother to study how kindness works.
- saint_fiasco 10y agoThe people who are worried about AI risk do study that stuff. In the context of AI research, the property of having an overall good effect on humanity is called "friendliness". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligen...
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI meant how actual people are capable of kindness, rather than a bunch of analytic-philosopher stuff.
- saint_fiasco 10y agoThey study that too. Look up kin selection, reciprocal altruism, game theory. Those are not good enough to constrain an AI, because power often corrupts even kind humans.