Hi Jason, On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> 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.
On a more serious note, the paper above is very interesting, thanks. If you have some time/patience, let me know what you think of my arguments here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02009 Telmo. > Jason > > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> IIRC, this is the view of Hawking and Musk. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
