Re: Who'd submit to the benevolent dictatorship of GAI anyway?

From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 23:33:46 MDT

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    Emlyn O'regan writes

    > > Adrian Tymes
    > > I think you missed a small but important point: while
    > > it is true that all of this is *legally* happening
    > > under the human proxy's name, that is but a legal
    > > fiction. In truth, the proxy need not be aware of
    > > the fine details of what actions the AI can directly
    > > take, for example issuing buy and sell orders through
    > > an online daytrading account. There are times when
    > > the proxy's active assistance will be necessary, but
    > > the AI could minimize those if gaining the proxy's
    > > cooperation would prove difficult, for instance if
    > > the proxy's and the AI's goals diverge.
    > >
    >
    > If I were the AI, I'd get a corporation set up for me.
    > All executive positions could be filled by humans
    > (maybe I can find some mentally incapable people
    > in nursing homes, something like that?), and I would
    > be enshrined in the charter (constitution? something
    > like that) ....

    "Something like that" ;-) I think your AI has implicitly
    popped into existence like Athena born whole from the
    thigh of Zeus.

    Just help me with this first bit. How does Emlyn-the-
    AI become self aware and then go out a hire his first
    employee or interact with the world in any commercial
    way. I can see how it might learn a lot as the protégé
    of an experienced entrepreneur and teacher but
    when does it usurp the teacher or doesn't it?

    Brett



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