On 11/27/2017 2:09 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
I think there might be two ways of interpreting this, each with
different answers.
The first question: Does AI create more threats that never existed before?
I think the answer is most definitely yes. Some examples:
- Large scale unemployment/disempowerment of people who cannot compete
with increasing machine intelligence
- Algorithms that identify and wipe out dissent / control opposition
- New and terrifying weapons (e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw )
- More infrastructure and systems that can be hacked or introduce
defects (air traffic control systems, self-driving cars, etc.)
The second question: Will super intelligence ultimately decide to
eliminate us (as meaningless, redundant, to make room for more
computation, etc.)?
This question is more interesting. I tend to fall in the camp that we
exercise little control over the ultimate decision made by such a
super intelligence, but I am optimistic that a super intelligence
will, during the course of its ascension, discover and formalize a
system of ethics, and this may lead to it deciding not to wipe out
other life forms. For example, it might discover the same ideas
expressed here (
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arnold_Zuboff/publication/233329805_One_Self_The_Logic_of_Experience/links/54adcdb60cf2213c5fe419ec/One-Self-The-Logic-of-Experience.pdf
) and therefore determine something like the golden rule is rationally
justified.
Marvin Minsky said, "I'm on the side of greater intelligence."
Brent
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