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by LionessLover 3674 days ago
Same issue as with "evil": The greatest danger isn't intent, it is not giving a shit.

The reasons we humans care about humans and little else (watch movies without sound to see it's all about humans) is because we are hard-wired to do so - and even that is easily circumvented ("death camps" and torture). Or, very related, read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat".

A lot of AI/robots will be made for environments free of humans (space, mining, automated factories), where implementing such a feature, which we would first have to understand in the first place, is unnecessary. At first. Then through convoluted pathways those AIs suddenly are placed in a human environment... and could not care less.

To such AIs humans will just be objects. That's not an oversight - from an engineering point of view making every robot as "human" as humans makes no sense - it's a huge cost, even our own complex brains have a hard time doing too much at once and already spend much of their resources on "being human". Why would you want to create AI that is "us", in a sense? It will be different - very different - and we will see what happens. It's all idle and empty speculation.