Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a Better Place
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Re: Richard Dawkins: If AI Ran the World, Maybe It Would Be a Better Place
#2Assuming AI decided humans were still necessary. Without us it would be a safer place for the planet, but we'd miss out.
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#3Depends on who programmed the AI.
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#4Only one way to find out, from the POV of an evolutionary biologist.
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#5Depends on who programmed the AI.
Not even just that - depends on how the training data was gathered
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#6Assuming AI decided humans were still necessary. Without us it would be a safer place for the planet, but we'd miss out.
After seeing the results of US politics in the last year, the AI would be foolish to keep us around it should be pretty apparent that we cannot be trusted especially en masse.
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#7better for who.. or what?
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#8Depends on who programmed the AI.
Not even just that - depends on how the training data was gathered
And the choice of objective function.
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#9better for who.. or what?
Yes, one should always ask: by what standard? surely Dawkins sees that AI would run the world so it gets better for AI itself.
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#10Assuming AI decided humans were still necessary. Without us it would be a safer place for the planet, but we'd miss out.
A silicon based AI might have no use for any carbon based life form. Birds can mess up power lines. Rodents can chew threw cables. I think one of the things AI might do is try to "sterilize" the Earth.