bring said sentient beings with difference preferences into existence in the first place. Doing so on purpose seems pretty risky to me
Not any more risky than bringing in humans. This is a governance/power distribution problem, not a what-kind-of-mind-this-is problem.
Biological humans sometimes go evil or crazy. If you have a system that can handle that, you have a system that can handle alien minds that are evil or crazy (from our perspective), as long as you don’t imbue them with more power than this system can deal with (and why would you?).
(On the other hand, if your system can’t deal with crazy evil biological humans, it’s probably already a lawless wild-west hellhole, so bringing in some aliens won’t exacerbate the problem much.)
Humans are more likely to be aligned with humanity as a whole compared to AIs, even if there are exceptions
“AIs as trained by DL today” are only a small subset of “non-human minds”. Other mind-generating processes can produce minds that are as safe to have around as humans, but which are still completely alien.
Many existing humans want their descendants to exist, so they are fulfiling the preferences of today‘s humans
Many existing humans also want fascinating novel alien minds to exist.
Not any more risky than bringing in humans. This is a governance/power distribution problem, not a what-kind-of-mind-this-is problem.
Biological humans sometimes go evil or crazy. If you have a system that can handle that, you have a system that can handle alien minds that are evil or crazy (from our perspective), as long as you don’t imbue them with more power than this system can deal with (and why would you?).
(On the other hand, if your system can’t deal with crazy evil biological humans, it’s probably already a lawless wild-west hellhole, so bringing in some aliens won’t exacerbate the problem much.)
Humans are more likely to be aligned with humanity as a whole compared to AIs, even if there are exceptions
Many existing humans want their descendants to exist, so they are fulfiling the preferences of today‘s humans
“AIs as trained by DL today” are only a small subset of “non-human minds”. Other mind-generating processes can produce minds that are as safe to have around as humans, but which are still completely alien.
Many existing humans also want fascinating novel alien minds to exist.