>From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
>Michael S. Lorrey writes,
>
> > Primarily because it is on a virtual system that is dependent upon us in
>the
> > real world to maintain. Just as I would not let a child loose in the
>world
> > without supervision, I would not let a new AI loose on the net or have
> > capabilities in the real world which limited our ability to supervise
>it. Once
> > it has proven its ability and good will, controls may be loosened, but
>every
> > such entity should always have an off switch of some kind, just as
>humans do.
>
>In further support of your comments, I'd add that the "off switch" for an
>AI
>could actually terminate or delete it. This means that it would be *much*
>easier
>to control unruly AIs than to control human children, since we
>(unfortunately?)
>can't actually terminate recalcitrant or sociopathic (i.e., unfriendly)
>human
>children.
>Furthermore, AIs could compete with each other to see who could be the
>friendliest, and only the most friendly would be allowed to replicate --
>the
>rest being discarded. Similar treatment of human child populations might
>meet
>with resistance from their mothers (to say the least).
>As a result, we can deal much more severely and harshly with Mind Children
>than
>we can deal with human children. Bottom line: I think we have more to fear
>from
>fiendish human hackers than from Spiritual Machines, Robo sapiens,
>Artilects, or
>Mind Children.
Funny. We all expect that eventually the AI will be exponentially more
intelligent than humans, but at the same time *some* of us expect that we'll
somehow be able to keep that genie safely trapped in his bottle.
> > Really, Zero, do you still beat your parents for being so fearful of
>your
> > tyranny, or are they already buried in the back yard?
Its comments like that that keep you in my killfile.
-Zero
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