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Dictators have never had superintelligence, while the point of most doom scenarios is assuming that the AI will. Dictators are mortal and can't be present in t
by Al-Khwarizmi 20d ago
Dictators have never had superintelligence, while the point of most doom scenarios is assuming that the AI will.
Dictators are mortal and can't be present in the whole world 24/7 and self-replicate.
Dictators are human and tend to have at least either a sliver of morality or self-preservation instinct, and/or people around them who have it. Many people during the last century could have unleashed doom by pushing a nuclear button, including various ruthless dictators, but at the moment none have done so since Hiroshima and Nagasaki (not that I trust that they won't at some point, but at least, for the last 80 years they haven't, which means it's not something that easily happens). Would you give the button to an unaligned AI? Would an unaligned AI care about mutually assured destruction?