The fundamental difference in the bad actor scenario is that the original is someone that wants to rule where the researchers want to be ruled by their AI god.
I see what you mean, though the fact that those researchers wish to impose this outcome on everybody else without their consent is still basically dictatorial, just as it would be if members of some political party started to persecute their opposition in service of their leader without themselves aspiring to take his position.
In both cases, those doing the bidding aspire to a place under the sun in the system they’re trying to bring about.
I suppose that one quirk of the AI researchers might be the belief that everywhere becomes a place under the sun, though I doubt that any of them believe that their role in bringing it about doesn’t confer them some special privilege or elite-status, perhaps as members of a new priestly class. Then again, we’ve seen political movements of this type, with some pigs famously being more equal than others.
The fundamental difference in the bad actor scenario is that the original is someone that wants to rule where the researchers want to be ruled by their AI god.
I see what you mean, though the fact that those researchers wish to impose this outcome on everybody else without their consent is still basically dictatorial, just as it would be if members of some political party started to persecute their opposition in service of their leader without themselves aspiring to take his position.
In both cases, those doing the bidding aspire to a place under the sun in the system they’re trying to bring about.
I suppose that one quirk of the AI researchers might be the belief that everywhere becomes a place under the sun, though I doubt that any of them believe that their role in bringing it about doesn’t confer them some special privilege or elite-status, perhaps as members of a new priestly class. Then again, we’ve seen political movements of this type, with some pigs famously being more equal than others.