In terms of utility functions, the most basic is: do what you want. “Want” here refers to whatever values the agent values. But in order for the “do what you want” utility function to succeed effectively, there’s a lower level that’s important: be able to do what you want.
Now for humans, that usually refers to getting a job, planning for retirement, buying insurance, planning for the long-term, and doing things you don’t like for a future payoff. Sometimes humans go to war in order to “be able to do what you want”, which should show you that satisfying a utility function is important.
For an AI who most likely has a straightforward utility function, and who has all the capabilities to execute it(assuming you believe that superintelligent AGI could develop nanotech, get root access to the datacenter, etc.), humans are in the way of “being able to do what you want”. Humans in this case would probably not like an unaligned AI, and would try to shut it down, or at least not die themselves. Most likely, the AI has a utility function that has no use for humans, and thus they are just resources standing in the way. Therefore the AI goes on holy war against humans to maximize its possible reward, and all the humans die.
In terms of utility functions, the most basic is: do what you want. “Want” here refers to whatever values the agent values. But in order for the “do what you want” utility function to succeed effectively, there’s a lower level that’s important: be able to do what you want.
Now for humans, that usually refers to getting a job, planning for retirement, buying insurance, planning for the long-term, and doing things you don’t like for a future payoff. Sometimes humans go to war in order to “be able to do what you want”, which should show you that satisfying a utility function is important.
For an AI who most likely has a straightforward utility function, and who has all the capabilities to execute it(assuming you believe that superintelligent AGI could develop nanotech, get root access to the datacenter, etc.), humans are in the way of “being able to do what you want”. Humans in this case would probably not like an unaligned AI, and would try to shut it down, or at least not die themselves. Most likely, the AI has a utility function that has no use for humans, and thus they are just resources standing in the way. Therefore the AI goes on holy war against humans to maximize its possible reward, and all the humans die.
Thanks for the response. Definitely going to dive deeper into this.