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A Corporation or Person that develops and owns an intelligent AI will have a strong incentive to keep such secret and to not turn it off, because of the huge ec
by garyclarke27 7y ago
A Corporation or Person that develops and owns an intelligent AI will have a strong incentive to keep such secret and to not turn it off, because of the huge economic benefits such would provide. If such an AI could imagine and innovate to improve itself eg new methods of computation to overcome Moore’s law then the risk is high of a recursive runaway exponential increase in intelligence that would be extremely difficult to control and might not be benign. I don’t believe this is imminent but is plausible I think within most of our lifetimes ie 25-30 years.
- Nasrudith 7y agoThe only reason to keep it secret is irrational fears that it will somehow kill us all with intelligence alone and that exponential increases may be done solo and not with generations of bootstrapping infastructure and considerable resources. Otherwise replicating and leasing would rake in far more than even a magic "I get everything right on the stock market" button in the same way ruling stone age tribe gives less absolute wealth than a Manhattan Lawyer.