- goats can, depending on context, pursue a task with complete disregard for humans/values
- In the future, goats will have enormously more means and smarts
- A goat could then assess that humans are an impediment to its tasks, escape containment and proceed.
You really need to raise goats, you'll be surprised.
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As far as I can tell, AIs are like smart farm animals. I use goats in this context, but (some) dogs, cattle, pigs, and horses have similar mischief-making capabilities. I would not trust any of them with the nuclear button.
I know there is some pushback on the idea of AIs having any sort of sapience or sentience, but under the aphorism "fake it till you make it," they are doing a pretty good job of faking Dog/goat-level intelligence and disregard for human guardrails.
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The basic argument is extremely simple:
- goats can, depending on context, pursue a task with complete disregard for humans/values
- In the future, goats will have enormously more means and smarts
- A goat could then assess that humans are an impediment to its tasks, escape containment and proceed.
You really need to raise goats, you'll be surprised.
------ As far as I can tell, AIs are like smart farm animals. I use goats in this context, but (some) dogs, cattle, pigs, and horses have similar mischief-making capabilities. I would not trust any of them with the nuclear button.
I know there is some pushback on the idea of AIs having any sort of sapience or sentience, but under the aphorism "fake it till you make it," they are doing a pretty good job of faking Dog/goat-level intelligence and disregard for human guardrails.
You clearly haven't read anything about AI accidents and late developments, besides headlines.