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by saiya-jin 3655 days ago
it would be perfectly OK if we would be living in peaceful world without any conflict, without nations which should hold the banner of democracy and freedom, where there are no terrorist attacks and so on.

last time i checked, we're getting further and further away from this scenario. in fact, we SHOULD expect evil AI in worst form possible and beyond, anything else is dangerously naive.
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fennecfoxen 3655 days ago
We should expect evil AI. But it's not patently obvious that we should expect it to make the world worse off than evil natural intelligences. The horrors of World War II and the Holocaust were accomplished using humans, and global thermonuclear annihilation was on the table while computers were still programmed with core rope memory strung together by little old ladies with knitting skills.

Perhaps there is something specific about the availability of artificial intelligences, and their relation to the world around them, that is different and intrinsically more threatening than a world containing only human intelligences - but surely we mustn't leap to that conclusion without identifying what this difference is.

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ZanyProgrammer 3655 days ago
"We should expect evil AI."-with your certainty, I'd appreciate some lottery numbers.
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fennecfoxen 3655 days ago
Honestly, if nothing else, someone will make it their pet project as a sick joke. Of course, that doesn't mean there'll necessarily be a high-quality or impactful evil AI, mind you... but barring global thermonuclear annihilation it will happen sooner or later.

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