I’d guess people will make many different variants of AGI. The evil sociopathic people (who always seem to rise to the top in human hierarchies) will certainly want an AGI in their image.
Over and over again human societies seem to fall to these people - the eternal battle between democracy and autocracy being one example.
Will we have competing/warring AGI’s? Maybe we’ll have to.
One argument for gun ownership is that good people with guns can stop bad people with guns, or at least make them pause and think. This type of arms race argument is fairly prevalent in the US. I can imagine the same argument being made for AI: let’s just make more AGI’s, but friendly ones to fight off the bad ones!
This type of argument ends very badly in practice though, as witnessed by gun crime in the US!
Ah, if only autocracy was built on evil sociopaths, and not completely ordinary people covering their ass or trying to get a leg up.
That aside, I think multiple “launches” is an underrated scenario. There’s this idea that you could rule the world with a wifi connection and enough hyperintelligence, and I just don’t see it. There’s lots of people with predatory intentions and an internet connection already, so we’ve insulated the important stuff from it pretty well. On the other hand, if it takes time to spread through meatspace, that’s time for another AGI to be launched in the meanwhile.
I’d guess people will make many different variants of AGI. The evil sociopathic people (who always seem to rise to the top in human hierarchies) will certainly want an AGI in their image.
Over and over again human societies seem to fall to these people - the eternal battle between democracy and autocracy being one example.
Will we have competing/warring AGI’s? Maybe we’ll have to.
One argument for gun ownership is that good people with guns can stop bad people with guns, or at least make them pause and think. This type of arms race argument is fairly prevalent in the US. I can imagine the same argument being made for AI: let’s just make more AGI’s, but friendly ones to fight off the bad ones!
This type of argument ends very badly in practice though, as witnessed by gun crime in the US!
Ah, if only autocracy was built on evil sociopaths, and not completely ordinary people covering their ass or trying to get a leg up.
That aside, I think multiple “launches” is an underrated scenario. There’s this idea that you could rule the world with a wifi connection and enough hyperintelligence, and I just don’t see it. There’s lots of people with predatory intentions and an internet connection already, so we’ve insulated the important stuff from it pretty well. On the other hand, if it takes time to spread through meatspace, that’s time for another AGI to be launched in the meanwhile.