From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 23:30:22 MST
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Nick Bostrom <bostrom@ndirect.co.uk>
>building smart safeguards into the moral system. For
>example, rather than rigidly prescribing a certain treatment for
>humans, we could add a clause allowing for democratic decisions by
>humans or human descendants to overrule other laws. I bet you could
>think of some good safety-measures if you put your mind to it.
I don't think security is possible by hardwiring certain actions into
an AI and any attempt to do so would only increase the possibility of it
becoming insane. Security is hard enough to maintain when you only
have to worry about criminals of average or more likely below average
brain power, you can't outsmart somebody vastly more intelligent than you
are. There are no guarantees but or best bet is to do the best we can to
make an AI that is sane and then just hope it likes us, who knows it might work.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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