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[mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Paul King
Are our fears of AI running amuck and killing random persons based on unfounded
assumptions?
Perhaps, and I see your point.
However, am going to try to make the following case:
If we take AI as some emergent networked meta-system, arising in a non-linear,
fuzzy, non-demarcated manner from pre-existing (increasingly networked)
proto-AI smart systems (+vast repositories), such as already exist… and then
drill down through the code layers – through the logic (DNA) – embedded within
and characterizing all those sub systems, and factor in all the many conscious
and unconscious human assumptions and biases that exist throughout these deeply
layered systems… I would argue that what could emerge (& given the trajectory
will emerge fairly soon I think) will very much have our human fingerprints
sown all the way through its source code, its repositories, its injected
values. At least initially.
I am concerned by the kinds of “values” that are becoming encoded in sub-system
after sub-system, when the driving motivation for these layered complex
self-navigating, increasingly autonomous systems is to create untended killer
robots as well as social data mining smart agents to penetrate social networks
and identify targets. If this becomes the major part of the code base from
which AI emerges then isn’t it a fairly good reason to be concerned about the
software DNA of what could emerge? If the code base is driven by the desire to
establish and maintain a system characterized by having a highly centralized
and vertical social control, deep data mining defended by an army increasingly
comprised of autonomous mobile warbots… isn’t this a cause for concern?
But then -- admittedly -- who really knows how an emergent machine based
(probably highly networked) self-aware intelligence might evolve; my concern is
the initial conditions (algorithms etc.) we are embedding into the source code
from which an AI would emerge.
On Monday, August 25, 2014 3:20:24 PM UTC-4, cdemorsella wrote:
AI is being developed and funded primarily by agencies such as DARPA, NSA, DOD
(plus MIC contractors). After all smart drones with independent untended
warfighting capabilities offer a significant military advantage to the side
that possesses them. This is a guarantee that the wrong kind of
super-intelligence will come out of the process... a super-intelligent machine
devoted to the killing of "enemy" human beings (+ opposing drones I suppose as
well)
This does not bode well for a benign super-intelligence outcome does it?
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From: meekerdb <meek...@verizon.net <javascript:> >
To:
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: AI Dooms Us
Bostrom says, "If humanity had been sane and had our act together globally, the
sensible course of action would be to postpone development of superintelligence
until we figured out how to do so safely. And then maybe wait another
generation or two just to make sure that we hadn't overlooked some flaw in our
reasoning. And then do it -- and reap immense benefit. Unfortunately, we do not
have the ability to pause."
But maybe he's forgotten the Dark Ages. I think ISIS is working hard to
produce a pause.
Brent
On 8/25/2014 10:27 AM
Artificial Intelligence May Doom The Human Race Within A Century, Oxford
Professor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/artificial-intelligence-oxford_n_5689858.html?ir=Science
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