I picked it up from everything on Friendly AI, the terrible uncaringness of the universe, etc. It is most likely not explicitly represented as replacing a negligent god anywhere outside my own musings, unless I’ve forgotten.
I’m not sure I’ve heard any detailed analysis of the Friendly AI project specifically in those terms—at least not any that I felt was worth my time to read—but it’s a common trope of commentary on Singularitarianism in general.
No less mainstream a work than Deus Ex, for example, quotes Voltaire’s famous “”if God did not exist, it would be necessary to create him” in one of its endings—which revolves around granting a friendly (but probably not Friendly) AI control over the world’s computer networks.
No less mainstream a work than Deus Ex, for example, quotes Voltaire’s famous “”if God did not exist, it would be necessary to create him” in one of its endings—which revolves around granting a friendly (but probably not Friendly) AI control over the world’s computer networks.
ROT-13:
Vagrerfgvatyl, va gur raqvat Abeantrfg ersref gb, Uryvbf (na NV) pubbfrf gb hfr W.P. Qragba (gur cebgntbavfg jub fgvyy unf zbfgyl-uhzna cersreraprf) nf vachg sbe n PRI-yvxr cebprff orsber sbbzvat naq znxvat vgfrys (gur zretrq NV naq anab-nhtzragrq uhzna) cuvybfbcure-xvat bs gur jbeyq va beqre gb orggre shysvyy vgf bevtvany checbfr.
I’m not sure I’ve heard any detailed analysis of the Friendly AI project specifically in those terms—at least not any that I felt was worth my time to read—but it’s a common trope of commentary on Singularitarianism in general.
No less mainstream a work than Deus Ex, for example, quotes Voltaire’s famous “”if God did not exist, it would be necessary to create him” in one of its endings—which revolves around granting a friendly (but probably not Friendly) AI control over the world’s computer networks.
ROT-13:
Vagrerfgvatyl, va gur raqvat Abeantrfg ersref gb, Uryvbf (na NV) pubbfrf gb hfr W.P. Qragba (gur cebgntbavfg jub fgvyy unf zbfgyl-uhzna cersreraprf) nf vachg sbe n PRI-yvxr cebprff orsber sbbzvat naq znxvat vgfrys (gur zretrq NV naq anab-nhtzragrq uhzna) cuvybfbcure-xvat bs gur jbeyq va beqre gb orggre shysvyy vgf bevtvany checbfr.