“A fairly stupid program (compared to humans) that merely drives a car, just doesn’t have the power to be a risk in the sense that Eliezer worries about.”
Well, not a significant one, anyway. Perhaps a very, very tiny one. Programs powering robot maids such as are being developed in Japan are a higher risk, as the required forms of intelligence are closer to human forms, and thus probably closer to general intelligence.
“A fairly stupid program (compared to humans) that merely drives a car, just doesn’t have the power to be a risk in the sense that Eliezer worries about.”
Well, not a significant one, anyway. Perhaps a very, very tiny one. Programs powering robot maids such as are being developed in Japan are a higher risk, as the required forms of intelligence are closer to human forms, and thus probably closer to general intelligence.
And again, they could cause (small-scale) human death, if they fail to feed a baby or hug someone too hard, etc.