Our human instinct to jump at a simple safeguard: “Aha! We’ll just unplug the [superhuman AI],” sounds to the [superhuman AI] like a spider saying, “Aha! We’ll kill the human by starving him, and we’ll starve him by not giving him a spider web to catch food with!” We’d just find 10,000 other ways to get food—like picking an apple off a tree—that a spider could never conceive of. (Quoted directly from here). (Policymakers)
Our human instinct to jump at a simple safeguard: “Aha! We’ll just unplug the [superhuman AI],” sounds to the [superhuman AI] like a spider saying, “Aha! We’ll kill the human by starving him, and we’ll starve him by not giving him a spider web to catch food with!” We’d just find 10,000 other ways to get food—like picking an apple off a tree—that a spider could never conceive of. (Quoted directly from here). (Policymakers)