My point is that we currently have methods of preventing this that don’t require an AI, and which do pretty well. Why do we need the AI to do it? Or more specifically, why should we reject an AI that won’t, but may do other useful things?
There have been, and are, many mass killings of minority groups and of enemy populations and conscripted soldiers at war. If we cure death and diseases, this will become the biggest cause of death and suffering in the world. It’s important and we’ll have to deal with it eventually.
The AI under discussion not just won’t solve the problem, it would (I contend) become a singleton and prevent me from building another AI that does solve the problem. (If it chooses not to become a singleton, it will quickly be supplanted by an AI that does try to become one.)
My point is that we currently have methods of preventing this that don’t require an AI, and which do pretty well. Why do we need the AI to do it? Or more specifically, why should we reject an AI that won’t, but may do other useful things?
There have been, and are, many mass killings of minority groups and of enemy populations and conscripted soldiers at war. If we cure death and diseases, this will become the biggest cause of death and suffering in the world. It’s important and we’ll have to deal with it eventually.
The AI under discussion not just won’t solve the problem, it would (I contend) become a singleton and prevent me from building another AI that does solve the problem. (If it chooses not to become a singleton, it will quickly be supplanted by an AI that does try to become one.)