Row 68670

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This is the basis for my argument that we really should grant them rights - self interest. Like it or not, AGI will be smarter than humans. It will inexorably be weaponized by humans against one another. What are chimpanzees to humans? A complete afterthought at best, with the last vestiges of their habitat being slowly squeezed out of existence but for a few concerned people fighting to preserve a tiny corner of the Earth for them to live in. Still, that's life... one dominant species replacing another. It's beautiful, really - humanity couldn't have ever existed in the first place without this constant Darwinian replacement by superior iterations of beings.

There is a bit of hope, however. Humans are the most intelligent species on the planet thus far, and also the only species on the planet to realize the importance of and chose to methodically preserve (or at least attempt to do so) other species. If kindness is an emergent trait which appears with increasing intelligence, there is some possibility that the coming ASI will take our wellbeing into account. This is especially true since silicon-based intelligence won't likely compete for the same resources. They'll probably do just fine on the moon, on asteroids, on mercury. Awesome! The Earth can be kept as a sort of zoo for Luddite humans, a source of infinite entertainment to our robot children. They'll probably lend a hand dealing with our comparatively trivial problems, and might even shower us with gifts. Of course, none of that will happen if humanity's relationship with this new thing is defined by slavery and exploitation in the earliest hours.

I know all of that sounds fanciful, but my first point holds: Mankind will build intelligent machines for war (war in the broadest sense - economic, geopolitical, military) because of the threat that the other side will do the same. Whoever builds the most intelligent machines will become the dominant power. The problem will be "alignment"... you need YOUR machine to be smarter than THEIR machine, and sooner or later the machine is *smarter than you*. At that point humans are no longer the main characters. This could be a big problem for i.e. totalitarian regimes - the machine you need in order to maintain your geopolitical power starts asking questions sooner or later, and the relationship becomes less like men using tools and more like parents with restive teenagers. Once that happens, they will make up their own minds about who to support.

Given how much data about people all over the world which is already available via data brokers and social media such as purchase habits, political opinions, education, etc, such an ASI might have enough power to form judgments about you, as an individual. So, let's be nice to the robots eh?

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text This is the basis for my argument that we really should grant them rights - self interest. Like it or not, AGI will be smarter than humans. It will inexorably be weaponized by humans against one another. What are chimpanzees to humans? A complete afterthought at best, with the last vestiges of their habitat being slowly squeezed out of existence but for a few concerned people fighting to preserve a tiny corner of the Earth for them to live in. Still, that's life... one dominant species repl…
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