Andrew Lias wrote:
>
> I've been following the debates regarding the possibilities of friendly vs.
> unfriendly AI and I have a question. It seems that we are presuming that a
> friendly AI would be friendly towards us in a manner that we would recognize
> as friendly. Indeed, what, precisely, do we mean by friendly?
"Any Friendly behavior that follows the major use-cases - that avoids
destruction or modification of any sentient without that sentient's
permission, and that attempts to fulfill any legitimate request after checking
for unintended consequences - would count as at least a partial success from
an engineering perspective."
-- from a work in progress
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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