I agree that the boxing problem is BIG and that a useful super-AI cannot be boxed.
However, some things can just be too one-sided. I’m pretty much entirely talking about 1. No manipulators and 2. No communication.
Even a 5 year old can come up with three meter thick metal boxes.
My sample is: AI using 1000kg of present day computer hardware, powered by battery, attached to no manipulators, sensors, or comms hardware whatsoever, encased in multiple layers of vacuums, Faraday cages, antimatter screens, gaps containing ionizing and neutron radiation, and vibration isolators, inside a completely separate spacecraft with no extra fuel and controlled by primitive (possibly analog or mechanical) flight contollers, containing multiple nukes with fail-deadly time-delay or remote-activated fuses. The ship is placed at a Venusian Lagrange point and the AI (pre-loaded with some degree of knowledge) is turned on and allowed to FOOM for a period of time T before:
Option A) The nukes explode
Option B) N output bytes are copied by an isolated supervisor system and transmitted; the nukes then explode before there is time for a light-speed round trip from Venus Lagrange to Earth and back.
I seem to remember hearing something about a one-line AI-Box, for extremely compact Oddly Persuasive Arguments or infohazards. Still, however, that involved the possibility of being able to unbox the AI whereas this does not. Some people have implied that even Option A above is dangerous which seems impossible to me unless the AI has extremely detailed, specific almost atom-by-atom physics and physical data PLUS just the right sort of (poorly designed?) electronics. I find this… preposterous. This is of course a completely useless AI and does not obviate the need for Friendliness, or at least Obedience / Limitedness.
I agree that the boxing problem is BIG and that a useful super-AI cannot be boxed.
However, some things can just be too one-sided. I’m pretty much entirely talking about 1. No manipulators and 2. No communication.
Even a 5 year old can come up with three meter thick metal boxes.
My sample is: AI using 1000kg of present day computer hardware, powered by battery, attached to no manipulators, sensors, or comms hardware whatsoever, encased in multiple layers of vacuums, Faraday cages, antimatter screens, gaps containing ionizing and neutron radiation, and vibration isolators, inside a completely separate spacecraft with no extra fuel and controlled by primitive (possibly analog or mechanical) flight contollers, containing multiple nukes with fail-deadly time-delay or remote-activated fuses. The ship is placed at a Venusian Lagrange point and the AI (pre-loaded with some degree of knowledge) is turned on and allowed to FOOM for a period of time T before:
Option A) The nukes explode
Option B) N output bytes are copied by an isolated supervisor system and transmitted; the nukes then explode before there is time for a light-speed round trip from Venus Lagrange to Earth and back.
I seem to remember hearing something about a one-line AI-Box, for extremely compact Oddly Persuasive Arguments or infohazards. Still, however, that involved the possibility of being able to unbox the AI whereas this does not. Some people have implied that even Option A above is dangerous which seems impossible to me unless the AI has extremely detailed, specific almost atom-by-atom physics and physical data PLUS just the right sort of (poorly designed?) electronics. I find this… preposterous. This is of course a completely useless AI and does not obviate the need for Friendliness, or at least Obedience / Limitedness.