Ask the general public if, for example, they’d prefer a personal AI that “whistleblows” on them if they ever lie, or cheat on their girlfriends/wives, or break any law, to one that’s aligned to their interests/will.
An analogy I like is a car that reports you to the traffic cops if your parking meter runs out for Safety reasons.
I can see that analogy. On the other hand, if I walk by your car and see that the parking meter has expired, I don’t get on the phone to the police. If I walk by and see you ramming pedestrians, I do.
And actually a lot of cars now make 911 calls if you hit something. I’m ambivalent about that as a car owner, but I would have a lot less ambivalence if the car were smart enough to tell the difference between, say, me ramming pedestrians, and it being a situation that affected only me and that I could deal with on my own.
Ask the general public if, for example, they’d prefer a personal AI that “whistleblows” on them if they ever lie, or cheat on their girlfriends/wives, or break any law, to one that’s aligned to their interests/will.
An analogy I like is a car that reports you to the traffic cops if your parking meter runs out for Safety reasons.
I can see that analogy. On the other hand, if I walk by your car and see that the parking meter has expired, I don’t get on the phone to the police. If I walk by and see you ramming pedestrians, I do.
And actually a lot of cars now make 911 calls if you hit something. I’m ambivalent about that as a car owner, but I would have a lot less ambivalence if the car were smart enough to tell the difference between, say, me ramming pedestrians, and it being a situation that affected only me and that I could deal with on my own.
I’m talking about the precise definition of whistleblowing, not an AI that erodes privacy.
And the general public seems to overwhelmingly support whistleblowers, or at least protections for whistleblowers, so I can very easily imagine them feeling the same about whistleblowing AI.