I know it's a theme, MacAskill discusess it in his book. In practice, this is the direction all the "AI safety" departments and organisations seem to be going i

I know it's a theme, MacAskill discusess it in his book. In practice, this is the direction all the "AI safety" departments and organisations seem to be going into. A world where everyone is paperclipped is probably better than one controlled by psychopathic totalitarian human overlords supported by AI, yet the direction of current research seems to leading us into the latter scenario.