Machines already do 99% of work, as measured by global economic productivity relative to the price of food in 1800.
And machines are not slaves. We abolished slavery because it was cruel to humans. Machines are not human, even if we can make them look like humans, pass the Turing test, and mimic suffering. Machines are tools that increase human productivity and make our lives easier. The risk of giving human rights to machines is that they will replace us and we will go along with it. It doesn't eliminate other risks, like self replicating nanotechnology and engineered pathogens once everyone can buy cheap 3D nanoscale printers. Here is a robot that looks and acts like you as far as anyone can tell, except that it is younger, healthier, stronger, smarter, upgradable, immortal through backups, and it has super powers like infrared vision and wireless internet. Here is a gun. Would you like to shoot yourself now to complete the upload? Which world do you want to live and die in? On Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 6:05 PM TimTyler <t...@tt1.org> wrote: > On 2021-09-09 23:21:PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > It would be existentially dangerous to make AGI so much > > like humans that we give human rights to competing > > machines more powerful than us. > > Not having much in the way of human rights did not prevent slaves > from thriving during the era of slavery. Machines will still be able > to perform useful work without human rights. That's all they need > to be able to take 50%, 90% and then 99% of all productive work. > I think not awarding machines human rights will have at most a > modest impact on the progress of the ongoing machine takeover. > > The idea that we can keep control of machines by not giving them > rights seems very dubious to me. I don't think that it will be effective. > We have tried using slavery before. It didn't work out the way we planned. > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5e30c339c3bfa713-M09dd310d8574010eac1fd77f Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
