It's definitely true that we need to protect ourselves from intelligent
adversaries who don't have our best interests at heart. The name of the
species that's currently threatening us is Homo Sapiens, and without
drastic changes in a short time frame we are likely to have our world
transformed into something uninhabitable.
AGIs are needed, but I'm less certain about AGI weapons.
John G. Rose wrote:
Yes this is true. Sometimes though I think that we need to build AGI
weapons ASAP. Why? The human race needs to protect itself from other
potentially aggressive beings. Humans treat animals pretty bad as an
example. The earth is a sitting duck. How do we defend ourselves?
Clumsy nukes? Not good enough… there needs to be new breakthroughs in
AGI/nanotech/digital physics that brings in new weaponry. That’s the
ugly reality. The alternative is to say that no other advanced beings
exist or if they do, assume that they’ll be friendly. Sounds
sci-fi-ish but it is not.
John
*From:* Edward W. Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
John,
Robin's original post said
"I've been invited to write an article for an upcoming special issue
of IEEE Spectrum on "Singularity", which in this context means rapid
and large social change from human-level or higher artificial
intelligence. "
I assume he is smart enought to know that superintelligent machines
pose some threats and will have significant social consequences
(that's why it is called the singularity). And certainly such threats
have been discussed on this list many times before.
I personally think it is possible AGI could bring in a much better
existence, but only if intelligence augmentation makes us more
intelligent as nations and as a world, if it lets us stay competative
with the machines we build, and if it causes us to build mainly only
machines that have been designed to be campatible with, and hopefully
care for, us..
Ed Poter
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