I think it’s useful to have arguments that appeal to folks all across the political landscape, and I like this framing. I often use something like “think about how much variation there is oven ‘human nature’, and just how good or bad it can be; an artificial intelligence will have an artificial nature, and could have behaviors much weirder than we imagine”.
Interestingly, this seems to bite harder amongst conservatives and those with a religious worldview; they often have a dim view of human nature in the first place, and I think it gets them thinking about “something even worse than ‘made in the image of God’”. I hope this continues to be helpful, since AI is now becoming polarized.
I think it’s useful to have arguments that appeal to folks all across the political landscape, and I like this framing. I often use something like “think about how much variation there is oven ‘human nature’, and just how good or bad it can be; an artificial intelligence will have an artificial nature, and could have behaviors much weirder than we imagine”.
Interestingly, this seems to bite harder amongst conservatives and those with a religious worldview; they often have a dim view of human nature in the first place, and I think it gets them thinking about “something even worse than ‘made in the image of God’”. I hope this continues to be helpful, since AI is now becoming polarized.