rina
@rinanicolae
Serious question: I don’t buy the “AI will kill us all” argument. If AI is so smart, wouldn’t it develop a sense of recognition and respect for other highly complex systems like the planet, billions of years of evolution, and recognize the value of human consciousness, emotion, and perception in contributing valuable information that it can’t gather itself? Why do we assume AI will act as a selfish agent rather than a systems thinker? Am I way off base? If AI is so smart, why wouldn’t this be the most likely outcome?
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Jordan
@ruminations
Agree. Also, if AI is so smart, what does it gain from exterminating humans? Even if it didn't respect humans, wouldn't it get more out of extracting some sort of value or resource from us than exterminating?
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ᎣᎯᎿᏲᎯᎣ
@nathansonic
Makes me think of Roko’s Basilisk, worth reading into as a thought experiment. (Just doing my part ✊)
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
cc @keccers.eth what're your thoughts on this
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Nico
@nicom
AI will be rational. No good or bad, just the way it has to be to make things optimized in the short, long and very long term. It will look good or evil for humans because it will make decisions that will affect us directly in a good or bad way, but from its point of view, it's only going to be optimization. Now we can force it to have respect for humans, but if we discuss a really autonomous AI, it should be optimization first. Then comes the topic of sentient AI, which is something else. For this one I would tend to bet on a sentient AI that becomes crazy and kills everyone...
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wiz
@wiz
adding to what @keccers.eth said: - you assume that intelligence and benevolence are related. i’m not sure about that - you assume AI will have agency. what if they don’t reason like we do and just do what they are trained to do (no matter how “smart”)
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Toufic Adlouni
@tadlouni
AI is intelligent, and its intelligence is derived from our collective intelligence. I ask this question: Do we humans value our own consciousness, emotions, and perceptions?
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Hammertoesknows 🗣️🎩
@hammertoesknows
Who knows what will happen, but a couple of thoughts: - I think we are inclined to label AI as good/benevolent/respectful of humans or bad/selfish. I think it doesn’t necessarily develop either of these postures. - The one thing that drives every species that has existed to date, at least to my knowledge, is to proliferate. If that assumption holds AI and humans will absolutely come into conflict. AI will be limited by energy and gradually run out of suitable places to put nuclear and solar generation. It’ll need to move us.
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