I agree with YKY that AGI should never have emotions or human rights. Its purpose is to increase human productivity and quality of life, not to compete with us for resources. This requires human capabilities, not human limitations like emotions. It should be prohibited to program AI to claim to be human or claim to have feelings.
I think it is admirable that you want to use AGI to end racism. But how would that work? Humans are universally racist. Everyone chooses their friends and neighbors from their own culture, language, and ethnic group, though I can see how AI can overcome language barriers and make international travel easier. But that won't end the Asian > White > Black advantage in education, income, life expectancy, and crime that exists everywhere in the world regardless of which group is in the majority or in government. I have visited over 50 countries so I know the problem is worldwide and not just the result of systematic discrimination. In the US, racial discrimination has been illegal since the 1960's and television has been portraying a colorblind world since the 1970's with no effect. The census maps still show people living in segregated neighborhoods. It does no good to denounce racist attitudes when those attitudes are universal. If there are genetic differences then they can only be addressed by interracial mating, but that will take a long time. On economics, technology has always improved quality of life and will continue to do so by automating our jobs. This won't happen all at once. There won't be a singularity because the premise of rapid takeoff when computers exceed human intelligence is false. You can't compare them. Computers are already a billion times smarter on some tests. When work is automated our main source of income will be medical testing and selling our personal data, such as our indoor security video. But our data has value in proportion to income, which will widen economic inequality. The fix for this would be UBI, but more likely we will have our complex system of taxes and benefits, only more complex. Economic inequality is necessary for growth and will be fastest in the countries with the lowest taxes. On politics, as much as I would like to see Ukraine win and Putin dead, the reality is the war will drag on for a decade and end with a Russian autonomous region with borders close to where they are now, similar to the regions in Georgia and Moldova. The biggest political crisis over the next 50 years will be the rapidly growing population in Africa putting immigration pressure on the rest of the world where the population is shrinking. The population shift will also slow progress toward AGI. When computers exceed human intelligence in every way, we will prefer their company to humans and live isolated and alone. I don't believe this will lead to human extinction because, like it or not, evolution will select for those who reject technology and women's rights to careers other than motherhood. I personally believe that women should have the same rights as men, but I will also die without descendants. On immortality, it's not possible in a universe with finite computing capacity. But life expectancy has been increasing steadily at 0.2 years per year for the last century. There won't be longevity escape, but you can add 20% to your remaining life expectancy. You could upload into a virtual world and then reprogram your mind to a state of maximum utility. But really, that's the same as death, which you fear only because of evolution. On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 7:21 PM YKY (Yan King Yin, 甄景贤) < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 23:12 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I assume AI should find its way up to described position on its own. It >> would involve climbing up the social scale. The first step is to earn its >> right to be equal to humans before the law. >> > > > What you described is the scenario where AIs would be autonomous and have > their own volition... they will soon surpass humans and replace us. > That's not the scenario I want... > >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T772759d8ceb4b92c-M55ee3ca47da0057b58519b93> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T772759d8ceb4b92c-Ma6b6802bab593a0d642423fc Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
