AI Advantages

WikiLast edit: 15 Aug 2012 13:54 UTC by Kaj_Sotala

AI advantages are various factors that might favor AIs in case there was ever a conflict between them and humans. These can be classified as hardware advantages, self-improvement capabilities, co-operative advantages, and human handicaps.

Hardware advantages

Self-improvement capabilities

An AI with access to its source code may directly modify the way it thinks, or create a modified version of itself. An AI can intentionally be built in a manner that is easy to understand and modify, and may even read its own design documents. Self-improvement capabilities may enable recursive self-improvement to occur, thereby triggering an intelligence explosion.

Co-operative advantages

Human handicaps

Humans frequently reason in biased ways. AIs might be built to avoid such biases.

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