From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 02:14:04 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> [April Fool's not???]
> More importantly its a strong case in point about how private
> companies acting in their own self-interest could disseminate
> the vehicle for the development of rogue AIs. All it would
> take is hacking BDE's communication protocols and you have
> millions of computers at your disposal.
>
> Not good. *Really* not good. I'd like to have Harvey confirm
> whether or not this is "real". (Even if it isn't, its worth
> considering that it could be.)
>
Why "not good" exactly? Getting to an SI is considered a
general good, but preferably with more checks and balances
toward Friendliness. Several million computers without a
workable plan of how to acheive a full AI and with the latencies
implied between nodes is not particularly scary to me or likely
to evolve something dangerous much faster than otherwise.
- samantha
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