With a safe genie, wishing is superfluous. Just run the genie.
But while most genies are terminally unsafe, there is a domain of “nearly-safe” genies, which must dwarf the space of “safe” genies (examples of a nearly-safe genie: one that picks the moral code of a random living human before deciding on an action or a safe genie + noise). This might sound like semantics, but I think the search for a totally “safe” genie/AI is a pipe-dream, and we should go for “nearly safe” (I’ve got a short paper on one approach to this here).
With a safe genie, wishing is superfluous. Just run the genie.
But while most genies are terminally unsafe, there is a domain of “nearly-safe” genies, which must dwarf the space of “safe” genies (examples of a nearly-safe genie: one that picks the moral code of a random living human before deciding on an action or a safe genie + noise). This might sound like semantics, but I think the search for a totally “safe” genie/AI is a pipe-dream, and we should go for “nearly safe” (I’ve got a short paper on one approach to this here).