3 ms·
"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky (2006)
by Karellen 4y ago
"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky (2006)
- bamboozled 4y agoAgain, I think there is a massive oversimplification in this statement. So if an AI gets to the point where it decides, or is programmed to consume all humans for their atoms, what will power the machine to get to this stage? Why would we just allow it to continue doing this? You'd have to assume that by the stage, whatever "sentient" program is making the choice / plans to consume all people for atoms, it would have to be factoring into it's plans that we will likely try stop it from doing so, this is where I think it gets "weird". To have that level of intelligence and self-awareness to pull off a plan like that unnoticed will likely come with a lot of "baggage". For example, it would need to understand motives, reasoning, have a concept of a self and self-protection etc. This is where I think it kind of becomes a bit of a mythological story. If you really try and think about the way an AI would go about consuming all people for atoms, you start to run into some pretty interesting walls. Maybe I'm being hyper naive and I get that, I just personally have thought about these scenarios and it raises a lot of questions about what a scenario like this would actually look like in practice.
- ImHereToVote 4y agoThis might help you out, a fantastic video about AI safety. Sorry for the necro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo