> Hey, I'm a relatively new subscriber. I know that we are talking about
> how to make an AI system friendly but has anyone considered the opposite
> -- building AI weapons.
>
> In the US anyway, a significant portion of AI research funding comes
> from the military, and this current administration is significantly
> increasing the budget for military R&D.
>
> There are all kinds of possibilities for intelligent attacks on
> communication networks, scenario modeling, evil robot armies, etc.
>
> The question I'm trying to raise is not necessarily how do we build AI
> weapons but rather how do we get the gov't to give up lots of money for
> AGI research? Evil Computing is the most logical answer.
>
> -Daniel
Daniel,
The US military funds a lot of AI research that is not directly
weapons-related, for example work on natural language understanding, network
security, integration of heterogenous data, antibiowarfare, etc. etc. etc.
So I think there are real opportunities for AGI-related funding from the
military, that do not involve severely morally questionable things like
creating AGI-powered weapons. Of course, those who choose to pursue such
avenues must handle them with extreme care.
One interesting point is that the US gov't rarely wishes to exclusively own
technologies; they are generally happy to fund their development in exchange
for a license to use them.
-- Ben G
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