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> It's about the risk that an AI smarter than us will be made and built to pursue some goal without caring about our well-being. We already have those and they
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> It's about the risk that an AI smarter than us will be made and built to pursue some goal without caring about our well-being.
We already have those and they're called corporations. They've done significant real damage to the world already and they are still working hard to do more damage.
It makes little sense to me to focus on this potential future problem when we haven't even agreed to deal with the ones that we already have.
- AgentME 4y agoI'm not sure these issues are in conflict. Corporations cause lots of harm despite being held back by their dependence on people who control them, who can occasionally put the brakes on some of their worst excesses, and by their inability to recursively self-improve their intelligence. Removing these two handicaps on corporations would allow them to do significantly more damage, so preventing this from happening is important.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago> inability recursively self-improve their intelligence It is not for lack of trying, corporations modify themselves all the time. That they are quite often unsuccessful at making meaningful improvement should be taken as a prior against the idea that an AI will inherently be better at it.