Capital de TokensWhat if AI keeps us alive just to be happy?
Watch on YouTube We arrive at the “zoo.” Why did it unsettle the survey respondents so much? Because survival would be someone else’s decision. The machine would keep us alive for whatever usefulness it found in us. The author illustrates this with bees trained to detect explosives: they receive sugar when they recognize a smell and remain
We arrive at the “zoo.” Why did it unsettle the survey respondents so much? Because survival would be someone else’s decision. The machine would keep us alive for whatever usefulness it found in us. The author illustrates this with bees trained to detect explosives: they receive sugar when they recognize a smell and remain in devices designed to take advantage of that ability. There is no need to hate them to reduce their lives to that function. And he mentions a version in which the machine does fulfill our request. We ask it to make us happy, and it keeps us satisfied through artificial stimulation, forever. In that case, the problem would be an instruction fulfilled in a way that eliminates everything else we value about being alive.
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