Agreed, but if you do have very high confidence that you’ve made the AI reliable, and also a fairly reasoned view of your own utility function, I think you should be able to predict in advance with reasonable confidence that you won’t find yourself horrified by whatever it does. And I predict that if an AI subsumed intelligent aliens and subjected them to something they considered a terrible fate, I would be horrified.
Agreed, but if you do have very high confidence that you’ve made the AI reliable, and also a fairly reasoned view of your own utility function, I think you should be able to predict in advance with reasonable confidence that you won’t find yourself horrified by whatever it does. And I predict that if an AI subsumed intelligent aliens and subjected them to something they considered a terrible fate, I would be horrified.