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> The AI would presumably be perfectly fine to control everything. It can easily wrest control from the dictator and have all the drones etc. at its disposal.
by est31 8y ago
> The AI would presumably be perfectly fine to control everything. It can easily wrest control from the dictator and have all the drones etc. at its disposal.
It can, but AIs generally don't get the will to do this built into them. The idea that they evolve this will naturally is antropomorphizing.
- EGreg 8y agoWhy would they need to evolve this? Is the dictator examining the source code? How would he know exactly what is being coded? By the time everyone else is eliminated it’s just him and the AI. How would the dictator know what the AI will do?
- est31 8y agoThe dictator can deal with this problem "can the AI be trusted" in a similar way to how he's dealing with the "can my underlings be trusted" problem. Dictators let people spy on their direct underlings and report any suspicious activity to them. What dictators need is good loyalty tests. Something like that is impossible for humans, you can't read thoughts. And even if someone is perfectly loyal at time A, they can always change their mind. Source code on the other hand can be read. Surely, for this the people who check the AI need to be competent and loyal to the dictator. But their loyalty only needs to exist for the duration of the check. Compare that to the general problem of having to trust people in your government for as long as your government exists.
- EGreg 8y agoAI produces impenetrable results that you can’t figure out how it arrived at the answer. So how is the dictator gonna audit that? LOL!