On 12/01 Ben Goertzel said: << 2) to avoid the military achieving *exclusive* control over one's technology
What I am about to say may sound blasphemous, but the military may be the group with resources to protect the technology! By publicizing and making AGI technology generally available other hostile governments/military may see AGI as a potential weapon and resort to traditional methods to acquire the technology, industrial espionage, kidnappings of key scientists. Or they may fear it as a another potential tool to reign in their aggression and target it for destruction which means facilities and people. If this sounds farfetched just look at the lengths certain countries go to acquire Plutonium. If the potential for AGI is seen as great and world changing. Who better to protect it or at least offer stewardship than the US or NATO military. What private or non-profit is prepared and qualified to protect the technology when it start's to get really interesting? There are a few possibilities of why DoD is currently a prime contributor to AI research. 1. They fear it (saw Terminator and War games), so they better damn keep an eye on it (Their paranoia). 2. They may have it already in the NSA basements and want to be control the direction of other research to keep their tactical advantage. (My paranoia) 3. They are starting to see the results of years of research in robotics and drone warriors in keeping the casualty counts down and the American public happy and look at AI as another way to continue this trend. 4. They are good at fumbling the ball when it comes to acting in a timely manner on terrorist threats and it's much easier to blame an AI when they screw up than risk their cushy jobs. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ben Goertzel Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [agi] An idea for promoting AI development. Regarding being wary about military apps of AI technology, it seems to me there are two different objectives one might pursue: 1) to avoid militarization of one's technology 2) to avoid the military achieving *exclusive* control over one's technology It seems to me that the first objective is very hard, regardless of whether one accepts military funding or not. The only ways that I can think of to achieve 1) would be 1a) total secrecy in one's project all the way 1b) extremely rapid ascendancy from proto-AGI to superhuman AGI -- i.e. reach the end goal before the military notices one's project. This relies on "security through simply being ignored" up to the proto-AGI phase... On the other hand, the second objective seems to me relatively easy. If one publishes one's work and involves a wide variety of developers in it, no one is going to achieve exclusive power to create AGI. AGI is not like nuclear weapons, at least not if a software-on-commodity-hardware approach works (as I think it well). Commodity hardware only is required, programming skills are common, and math/cog-sci skills are not all *that* rare... -- Ben G > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alexander E. Richter > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [agi] An idea for promoting AI development. > > > At 07:18 02.12.02 -0500, Ben wrote: > >.... > >Can one use military funding for early-stage AGI work and then > >somehow delimitarize one's research once it reaches a certain point? > One can try, > >but will one succeed? > > They will squeeze you out, like Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace in > BRAINSTORM (1983) (Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood) > > cu Alex > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your > subscription, please go to > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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