Optimistic scenario 6:
Technological progress in AI makes difficult philosophical problems much easier. (Lots of overlap with corrigibility). Early examples: Axelrod’s tournaments, Dennett on Conway’s Life as a tool for thinking more clearly about free will.
(This is probably a special case of corrigibilty).
This seems fairly unlikely to me except insofar as AI acts as a filter that forces us to refine our understanding. The examples you provide arguably didn’t make anything easier, just made what was already there more apparent to more people. This won’t help resolve the fundamental issues, though, although it may at least make more people aware of them (something, I’ll add, I hope to make more progress on at least within the community of folks already doing this work, let alone within a wider audience, because I continue to see, especially as goes epistemology, dangerous misunderstandings or ignorances of key ideas that pose a threat to successfully achieving AI alignment).
Optimistic scenario 6: Technological progress in AI makes difficult philosophical problems much easier. (Lots of overlap with corrigibility). Early examples: Axelrod’s tournaments, Dennett on Conway’s Life as a tool for thinking more clearly about free will.
(This is probably a special case of corrigibilty).
This seems fairly unlikely to me except insofar as AI acts as a filter that forces us to refine our understanding. The examples you provide arguably didn’t make anything easier, just made what was already there more apparent to more people. This won’t help resolve the fundamental issues, though, although it may at least make more people aware of them (something, I’ll add, I hope to make more progress on at least within the community of folks already doing this work, let alone within a wider audience, because I continue to see, especially as goes epistemology, dangerous misunderstandings or ignorances of key ideas that pose a threat to successfully achieving AI alignment).