From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 12:09:39 MDT
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:16:11AM +1000, Brett Paatsch wrote:
>
> It seems like Joe the human proxy who is allowed to make purchases
> etc using the AI's judgement perhaps because Joe reared the AI
> is a substanial competitive threat. Society is likely to see Joe as
> equipped with a new form of super tool, that could undermine a
> lot of power basis rather than automatically move to grant the AI
> personhood (as in say Bicentential Man) or even a back account
> where the AI can sell services in its own right.
>
> Wouldn't governments concerned about jobs and the economy
> be tempted to move in to counter Joe's tool?
Isn't the assumption that only Joe has such a tool a rather unlikely
assumption? It only works if you assume that such AIs are the result of
an unlikely breakthrough. It is IMHO far too close to a Hollywood meme
for comfort. I would rather expect that in any setting there would be a
range of AIs. Joe's would just be the smartest, but there would be AIs
working for the government, companies and other people too and they
Maybe one could make an analysis looking at different "Gini
coefficients" of AI intelligence distribution.
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