Notice the lack of domain-general intelligence in that robot, and—on the other side—all the pre-programmed safety features it has that a mc-aixi robot would lack. Narrow AI is naturally a lot easier to reason about and build safety into. What I’m trying to stress here is the physical ability to harm people, combined with the domain-general intelligence to do it on purpose*, in the face of attempts to stop it or escape.
Different programs indeed do different things.
* (Where “purpose” includes “what the robot thought would be useful” but does not necessarily include “what the designers intended it to do”.)
Notice the lack of domain-general intelligence in that robot, and—on the other side—all the pre-programmed safety features it has that a mc-aixi robot would lack. Narrow AI is naturally a lot easier to reason about and build safety into. What I’m trying to stress here is the physical ability to harm people, combined with the domain-general intelligence to do it on purpose*, in the face of attempts to stop it or escape.
Different programs indeed do different things.
* (Where “purpose” includes “what the robot thought would be useful” but does not necessarily include “what the designers intended it to do”.)
Nobody has bothered putting safety features into AIXI because it is so constrained by resources, but if you wanted to, it’s eminently boxable.