On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 07:08:05 GMT, Bloxy's at hotmail.com (Bloxy's) wrote:
>The first strike will come from a machine, most likely,
>because first of all, the man had some interest to build
>that machine. Logically, there is no level where the man
>will stop.
>
This idea that AI will compete with and eventually surplant us assumes
that machine will have similar motivations to people. There's simply no
reason why we would build machines that way. When we build AIs we'll
build the to serve us and that will be their fundamental goal. Even when
AIs build other AIs they'll do it not out of some biological
reproductive drive but in our service. If someone is perverse and stupid
enought to build AIs with a copy of our biological motivations then,
hopefully, there will be enough AIs produced by sensible people to
defend us.
Some people think that building AIs as "slaves" is unethical but the
truth is that _whatever_ fundamental motivations they end up with will
be down to us and the only way that one set of motivations is ethically
superior to another is in the way it affects us. If they destroy us it
will because we have effectively told them to.
