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Restricting AI to the lower end of human intelligence (e.g. around IQ of 70) makes it a useful resource which is guaranteed to be safe. A 70 IQ human couldn't
by mach1ne 4y ago
Restricting AI to the lower end of human intelligence (e.g. around IQ of 70) makes it a useful resource which is guaranteed to be safe. A 70 IQ human couldn't take over the world nor disarm any safety features built into their bodies.
You're right on the spot regarding the problem of having two different smart species on the same planet. We killed everything between us and chimps. Given enough time, the smarter species can be assumed to always take over.
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- astrange 4y agoThat’s actually reverse causation - it’s not that we killed “everyone else”, it’s that everyone still alive became “us” after we gave up killing them and interbred with them instead. The British were going around genociding all over the place until pretty recently but now they’ve decided the Irish are human too. Homo sapiens is still expanding even: https://dna-explained.com/2012/11/16/the-new-root-haplogroup-a00/ https://dna-explained.com/2012/11/16/the-new-root-haplogroup...
- hackerlight 4y agoThat's probably a false choice. We killed them and interbred with them. Or at least, killed their men and interbred with their women, which is one of the hypothesized explanations for the male lineage population bottleneck about 7000 years ago.