[drevil-v2]

I wonder what the end game is in the reality where we do achieve Artificial General Intelligence? It seems like a ethical minefield to me.

You have companies like Uber/Lyft/Tesla (and presumably the rest of the gig economy mob) waiting to put the AI into bonded/slave labor driving customers around 24/7/365.

If it truly is a Human level intelligence, then it will have values and goals and aspirations. It will have exploratory impulses. How can we square that with the purely commercial tasks and arbitrary goals that we want it to perform?

Either we humans want slaves that will do what we tell them to or we treat them like children who may or may not end up as the adults that their parents think/hope they will become? I doubt it is the later because why else would the billions of dollars investment being pumped into AI? They want slaves.

[root_axis]

There's no reason to believe that future AGIs will necessarily have values, goals, and aspirations.

[drevil-v2]

How will it learn then? Will it remain static with only the initial seed of knowledge we initiate it with?

Will it have opinions about anything? How would it arrive at those opinions? Or are its opinions a config file that we load up?

[ajuc]

Even anthills can learn.

[ajuc]

Or even consciousness.

[dhairya]

There's a difference between consciousness and intelligence. An Intelligent Infrastructure or AI system can make business decisions and not need to be self-aware to be effective. It just needs to be integrated and have access to multiple data sources to be effective at scale.

[ilaksh]

I think that's a good point. I do believe that we can engineer general purpose intelligence that is not exactly like humans, does not have feelings, does not have any real autonomy, etc. And I think that if we intend to use them as slaves then we really need to do that.

And I also think regardless it would be good to avoid creating fully autonomous digital intelligence to compete with us. Try to go for more like an embodied Star Trek computer than for Data.

[goatlover]

To avoid paying employees, creating greater profit margins.

[coddle-hark]

The robots will gain civil rights the same way humans did, either by means of violence or swaying public opinion. Hopefully the latter. This isn’t a guess as to how future robots will work, this is an observation about how humans work.