RE: Revolting AI

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 03:51:00 MST


On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Colin Hales wrote:

> This, I feel, is more likely how our AI progeny will treat us if we
> design them correctly (one of Banks' themes involves just an errant

Co-evolution of strategies implies unpredictability. Hence the
requirements for docility and power are mutually exclusive. Tanstaafl,
there's no power without the price, etc.

Immediately following from this: if you've built a powerful AI, you've
built a dangerous one.

> ship, I think, where the beastie is a little on the sociopath side of
> things). So many SF novels. They all blur into each other after a while.
> Poor little human me.

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