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"The biggest problem is AI wiping out human existence."
"What about AI-controlled lasers for killing insects in every house?"
#ai #agi #aiethics

I seem to have written a wee essay about #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #AGI
It's probably not in its final form yet, I'll probably revise a bit. Comments welcome.

AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.

If an #AGI were to emerge from one of the labs working on such things, and it claimed to be conscious, on what #legal standing might it plead for protection against being turned off? Would it necessarily have any right to do so under current law?

"our energy systems are already massively in carbon debt. We cannot afford to borrow any more carbon from fossil reserves. To burn carbon now to build AGI on the vague hope that it may by some remote chance produce systems with more insight than we now have, at a time when our politicians are already failing to act on the very clear data being produced by their own scientists, it the purest folly"
#AGI

AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.

While billionaires try to build #AGI, it's absolutely clear that, were it built, it could not possibly be controlled.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00913
Given their obsession, this seems like bad news (it's old news). Fortunately, probably it can't be built.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-012-9124-9
So that's fun. It's interesting that the second is older than the first. It would be interesting to actually read the second rather than just the abstract.
Billionaires are killing us with climate change in order to create an evil god that they can't control, even though they never bothered to check if creating that god was even possible in the first place. So that's all fun.

"we are at the end of days. Our planet — which is, as far as we know, the only planet anywhere in the universe to support intelligent life — is literally burning as I write this, and it is burning because we are burning it. Building huge data centres to pursue the egocentric fantasies of kleptocrat pirates only accelerates that process"
#AGI

AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.