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AI is just software. So any discussion about AI gone wrong is really a discussion about malware and other kinds of software which are used by people to do bad
by pekk 12y ago
AI is just software.
So any discussion about AI gone wrong is really a discussion about malware and other kinds of software which are used by people to do bad things. If my software runs a power plant for an evil facility (full of sharks with lasers), is it evil software? The evilness of the software is parasitic on the intent of its operators.
But if the issue is software that goes badly wrong in unexpected ways, we are really just talking about software engineering again, segfaults and Ariane 5 and how to handle user passwords.
Obviously if we plan to outsource big tasks to chaotic software that we have trustingly given power over, let's say, all the cruise missiles, that is less of a scary emergent singularity scenario and more a plain-old-stupid scenario.