the only aligned AIs are those which are digital emulations of human brains
I don’t think this is necessarily true. I don’t think emulated human brains are necessary for full alignment, nor whether emulated human brains would be more aligned than a well calibrated and scaled up version of our current alignment techniques (+ new ones to be discovered in the next few years). To emulate the entire human brain to align values seem to be not only implausible (even with neurmorphic computing, efficient neural networks and Moore’s law^1000), it seems like an overkill and a misallocation of valuable computational resources. Assuming I’m understanding “emulated human brains” correctly, emulation would mean pseudo-sentient systems solely designed to be aligned to our values. Perhaps morality can be a bit simpler than that, somewhere in the middle of static, written rules (the law) and the unpredictable human mind. Because if we do make more of people essentially, it’s not really addressing the “many biases or philosophical inadequacies” of us.
This conclusion was the result of conditioning on the world where in order to decode human values from the brain, we need to understand the entire brain. I agree with you when this is not the case, but in different degrees depending on how much of the brain must be decoded.
I don’t think this is necessarily true. I don’t think emulated human brains are necessary for full alignment, nor whether emulated human brains would be more aligned than a well calibrated and scaled up version of our current alignment techniques (+ new ones to be discovered in the next few years). To emulate the entire human brain to align values seem to be not only implausible (even with neurmorphic computing, efficient neural networks and Moore’s law^1000), it seems like an overkill and a misallocation of valuable computational resources. Assuming I’m understanding “emulated human brains” correctly, emulation would mean pseudo-sentient systems solely designed to be aligned to our values. Perhaps morality can be a bit simpler than that, somewhere in the middle of static, written rules (the law) and the unpredictable human mind. Because if we do make more of people essentially, it’s not really addressing the “many biases or philosophical inadequacies” of us.
This conclusion was the result of conditioning on the world where in order to decode human values from the brain, we need to understand the entire brain. I agree with you when this is not the case, but in different degrees depending on how much of the brain must be decoded.