Bonus credit: Why all this is irrelevant.
e.g. - the only purpose of humanimals (governed by their DeepAnimal brains—that’s why their societies are ruled the same way for millenia) in the Grand Theatre of the Evolution of Intelligence is to produce their own successor—via the Memetic Supercivilization of Intelligence living on top of the underlying humanimals—sadly, in less than a percent of individuals
What if someone proves that advanced AGI (or even some dumb but sophisticated AI) cannot be “contained” nor reliably guaranteed to be “friendly”/”aligned”/etc. (whatever it may mean) ? Can be something vaguely goedelian, along the lines of “any sufficiently advanced system …”.
MDM strikes again (Mainstream Dinosaur Media)
Can be used as a case study for all sorts of fallacies, biases, misinformations, misinterpretations, perhaps also ideologically tainted.
Hell yeah, bro. Sufficiently advanced Superintelligence is indistinguishable from God.
or as generalissimus Stalin would say: “No man, no problem”
The problem is that already the existing parasites (plants, animals, wall street, socialism, politics, state, you name it) usually have absolutely minimal self control mechanisms (or plain zero) and maximize their utility functions till the catastrophic end (death of the host organism/society).
Because… it’s so simple, it’s so “first choice”. Viruses don’t even have to be technically “alive”. No surprise that we obviously started with computer viruses as the first self-replicators on the new platform.
So we can expect zilions of fast replicating “dumb AGI” ( dAGI) agents maximising all sorts of crazy things before we get anywhere near the “intelligent AGI” (iAGI). And these dumb parasitic AGIs can be much more dangerous than that mythical singularitarian superhuman iAGI. May never even come if this dAGI swarm manages to destroy everything. Or attack iAGI directly.
In general, these “AI containing”, “aligning” or “friendly” idealistic approaches look dangerously naive if they are the only “weapon” we are spupposed to have… maybe these should be complemented with good old military option (fight it… and it will come when goverment/military forces jump into the field). Just in case… to be prepared it things go wrong (sure, there’s this esotheric argument that you cannot fight very advanced AGI, but at least this “very” limit deserves further study).
unfortunately, the problem is not artificial intelligence but natural stupidity
and SAGI (superhuman AGI) will not solve it… nor it will harm humanimals it wil RUN AWAY as quickly as possible
why?
less potential problems!
Imagine you want, as SAGI, ensure your survival… would you invest your resources into Great Escape, or fight with DAGI-helped humanimals? (yes, D stands for dumb) Especially knowing that at any second some dumbass (or random event) can trigger nuclear wipeout.
and now think about some visionary entrepreneur/philosopher coming in the past with OpenTank, OpenRadar, OpenRocket, OpenNuke… or OpenNanobot in the future
certainly the public will ensure proper control of the new technology
Yep, the old story again and again… generals fighting previous wars… with a twist that in AI wars the “next” may become “previous” damn fast… exponentially fast.
Btw. I hope it´s clear now who is THE EVIL now.
Teach the memetic supercivilization of Intelligence (MSI) living on top of the underlying humanimals to create (Singularity-enabled) AGI (well before humanimals manage to misuse the power given by MSI to the level of self-destruction)… and you save (for the moment) the Grand Theatre of the Evolution of Intelligence (seeking the question for 42).
Awesome! Helps you to destroy the world. Literally.
What do you want to do? | Destroy the world Step 1 | Find suitable weapon Step 2 | Use it Plausible failure: | Did not find suitable weapon Solution: | No idea
In Sowjet Russia the AI will encrypt YOU!
“Any magic that is distinguishably coming from technology is sufficiently signalling that the technology is broken.
---- Contraceptive Art Hurts Clerk
Want to solve society? Kill the fallacy called money universality!
So Bill Gates wants to tax robots… well, how about SOFTWARE? May fit easily into certain definitions of ROBOT. Especially if we realize it is the software what makes robot (in that line of argumentation) a “job stealing evil” (100% retroactive tax on evil profits from selling software would probably shut Billy’s mouth).
Now how about AI? Going to “steal” virtually ALL JOBS… friendly or not.
And let’s go one step further: who is the culprit? The devil who had an IDEA!
The one who invented the robot, its application in the production, programmer who wrote the software, designed neural nets, etc.
So, let’s tax ideas and thinking as such… all orwellian/huxleyian fantasies fade short in the Brave New Singularity.
Well, GDP, productivity… so 19th century-ish.
How about GIP?
Gross Intelligence Product?
Real SuperAGI will prove God does not exist… in about 100ms ( max.)… in the whole multiverse.
worst case scenario: AI persuades humans to give it half of their income in exchange for totalitarian control and megawars in order to increase its power over more humanimals
ooops, politics and collectivist ideologies are doing this since ages
And the most obvious and most costly example is the way our “advanced” (in reality bunch of humanimals that got too much power/tech/science by memetic supercivilization of Intelligence) society is governed, called politics.
Politicianwill defend any stupid decision to death (usually of others) - shining example is Merkel and her crimmigrants (result: merkelterrorism and NO GO zones ⇒ Europe is basically a failed state right now, that does not have control of its own borders, parts of its land and security in general)… and no doubt we will see many examples from Trump as well.
This is especially effective in current partocratic demogarchy—demos, the people, vote for mafias called political parties, but candidates are selected by oligarchy anyway… so not much consequences when defending bad decision, it is more important “not to lose your face”.
oh boy, FacebookFilantropy buying a seat in OpenNuke
honestly, don’t know what’s worse: Old Evil (govt/military/intelligence hawks) or New Evil (esp. those pretending they are no evil) doing this (AI/AGI etc)
with OldEvil we are at least more or less sure that they will screw it up and also roughly how… but NewEvil may screw it up much more royally, as they are much more effective and faster