Regarding being wary about military apps of AI technology, it seems to me there are two different objectives one might pursue:
1) to avoid militarization of one's technology 2) to avoid the military achieving *exclusive* control over one's technology It seems to me that the first objective is very hard, regardless of whether one accepts military funding or not. The only ways that I can think of to achieve 1) would be 1a) total secrecy in one's project all the way 1b) extremely rapid ascendancy from proto-AGI to superhuman AGI -- i.e. reach the end goal before the military notices one's project. This relies on "security through simply being ignored" up to the proto-AGI phase... On the other hand, the second objective seems to me relatively easy. If one publishes one's work and involves a wide variety of developers in it, no one is going to achieve exclusive power to create AGI. AGI is not like nuclear weapons, at least not if a software-on-commodity-hardware approach works (as I think it well). Commodity hardware only is required, programming skills are common, and math/cog-sci skills are not all *that* rare... -- Ben G > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alexander E. Richter > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [agi] An idea for promoting AI development. > > > At 07:18 02.12.02 -0500, Ben wrote: > >.... > >Can one use military funding for early-stage AGI work and then somehow > >delimitarize one's research once it reaches a certain point? > One can try, > >but will one succeed? > > They will squeeze you out, like Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace in > BRAINSTORM (1983) (Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood) > > cu Alex > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
