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Assuming the premise of this achieving sentience... > Should we worry if it achieves sentience? No, because it's easy to kill.
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Assuming the premise of this achieving sentience...
> Should we worry if it achieves sentience?
No, because it's easy to kill.
- taeric 4y agoSo should we worry if it learns to propagate itself? :)
- MichaelCollins 4y agoI don't really buy the whole "it teaches itself to hack itself out" idea. I think a sentient AI would be able to introspect and manipulate its operating environment if it was specifically designed to have that capability. Another scenario might be that somebody installs the sentient AI inside an drone submarine with nuclear armed SLBMs. You can contrive scenarios where the AI is given capabilities that make it hard to kill. But baring such scenarios, if the program scares you then just SIGKILL it.
- taeric 4y agoI meant that solely as a joke. I can kind of buy that someday systems can replicate themselves. But I don't see that on any near horizon; such that I agree with you on this.