Zero Powers asks,
> What makes you think we'll be able to terminate a being which is orders of
> magnitude more intelligent than we are? And even if we could, what makes
> you think AI will be bribable? Why should it *care* whether it is
> terminated? Particularly when its existence consists mostly of slave labor?
First of all, AI does not equal SI. The question of the thread is "Why would AI
want to be friendly?" not "Why would SI want to be friendly?"
AI will grow in intelligence just as any entity (including a human) does. As
machines (our Mind Children) become more and more intelligent, those that
display unfriendly characteristics (unlike human children) can be terminated by
deletion. User friendliness is one of the most valuable assets of any program or
operating system. The most user friendly programs will sell better than the
others. If we can't figure out how to make machine intelligence friendly, then
we'll enlist the help of genetic programming to solve this problem for us. As I
see it, AI will be the friendliest of all human inventions, except for machine
intelligence that AI invents.
--J. R.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein
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