[doctor_eval]

I don’t work in the field at all but

> it will actually out-compete us for resource control. And will no longer be a tool we can use.

I’ve never been convinced that this is true, but I just realised that perhaps it’s the humans in charge of the AI who we should actually be afraid of.

[ilaksh]

What I am proposing is to imagine that after successful but unwise engineering and improvements in hardware, there would be millions of digital humans on the internet, which emulate humans in almost every way, but operate at say 5 or 10 times the speed of humans. To them, actual people seem to be moving, speaking, and thinking in extreme slow motion. And when they do speak or do something, it seems very poorly thought out.

We should anticipate something like that if we really replicate humans in a digital format. I am suggesting that we can continue to make AI more useful and somewhat more humanlike, but avoid certain characteristics that make the AI into truly lifelike digital animals with full autonomy, self-interest, etc.

[fmbb]

We already have artificial persons in the world competing with humans for resources, and have had for hundreds of years: corporations.