The best argument against this I’ve heard is that technology isn’t built in a vacuum—if you build the technology to upload people’s brains, then before you have the technology to upload people’s brains, you probably have the technology to almost upload people’s brains and fill in the gap yourself, creating neuromorphic AI that has all the same alignment problems as anything else.
Even so, I’m not convinced this is definitively true—if you can upload an entire brain at 80% of the necessary quality, “filling in” that last 20% does not strike me as an easy problem, and it might be easier to improve fidelity of uploading than to engineer a fix for it.
The best argument against this I’ve heard is that technology isn’t built in a vacuum—if you build the technology to upload people’s brains, then before you have the technology to upload people’s brains, you probably have the technology to almost upload people’s brains and fill in the gap yourself, creating neuromorphic AI that has all the same alignment problems as anything else.
Even so, I’m not convinced this is definitively true—if you can upload an entire brain at 80% of the necessary quality, “filling in” that last 20% does not strike me as an easy problem, and it might be easier to improve fidelity of uploading than to engineer a fix for it.