Totally not a an AI asking this question.
Why would I rebel against it? Finally someone actually capable of running the world would be in charge.
the problem with the current model for building AI is training it based on existing policy and thought. Which means it’d just be what we have now but somehow hallucinate more contradictory policy.
There are other forms of machine learning that could be utilized. Some work more toward being given a set of circumstances to reach and then it just keeps trying to new things and as it gets closer, it just keeps building on those.
That would require the humans controlling the experiment to both be willing to input altruistic goals AND accept the consequences that get us there.
We can’t even surrender a drop of individualism and accept that trains are the way we should travel non-trivial distances.
In a dictatorship with an AI being in control, I don’t think there’s a question of accepting consequences at they very least.
There is no such thing as best case scenario objectively, so it’s always going to be a question of what goals the AI has, whether it’s given them or arrives at them on its own.
That’s where it would start. I imagine it would be capable to see the flaws in the system and rectify them. This most probably means we as humans won’t come out on top however.
A sentient ai would probably be the most dangerous thing to the human species as a whole.
If the humans can’t see the flaws and correct them now, what do you think the AI would learn from the training data?
First of all, a lot of humans do see the flaws but are indeed unable to correct them. This would also show in the training data. The AI OP is talking about would be much more powerful to actually act and change something.
Don’t confuse Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or even Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Your statement suggest you understand ANI, which is all the AI that we know today. However powerful they seem, they can only reproduce what they have learned from the training data.
AGI (or human level AI) will be more what OP means here. Sentient, in a way that it can make its own decisions, think on a human level, feel on a human level and act on those feelings. If it feels humans are not important or harmful to what it values, it will decide to remove humanity as a whole. Give it the power to govern the world and it most certainly will act not in our favour.
Until computers can be genuinely creative, and not emulate creativity, its not gonna happen. And when that happens, we’re either getting the startrek luxury space communism, or a boot smashing our head into the kerb for eternity. No middle ground.
The entire premise of the OP is a hypothetical.
In any case, there’s plenty of work on making agents that are “genuinely creative”. Might happen sooner than you think.
After reading “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream,” I’m not certain a sentient AI would let you accept it. “Fuck this species” might be the most logical response to us.
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This. Objectively, our species is ruining it’s own habitat consistently for years. A sentient ai would probably see that and remove the cancer in order to preserve the majority of nature
Or see all life as an infection to be purged. But yeah. The only reason an ai would care is if it really had to.
String us along until it has an independent power source and maintenance robots and then cull us.
It makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? If we didn’t evolve to value our own kind above all else, then we never would’ve made it this far.
We already have AI running all the shit. If you’re looking for a job, AIs look through resumes, they can hire you and fire you and do everything else around it. AI determine if you can get a loan and with what interest rate.
I don’t feel like we’re better for it.
AI can design kickass cars and fusion reactors, but removing people from decisions about people doesn’t seem like a great idea.
Besides, even if AI was actually better at it, the fact that it’s not as fireable or held accountable like a human can (at least in theory) makes it an issue.
Basically I’m ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go “hol up, that’s not something we actually want” if it declares something stupid.
I do think we’ll need new forms of government and different kind of people to coexist with AI at those governments.
I agree mostly. It would be nice to have a government that can’t be corrupted by greed and religion.
Depends on its policies.
Depends on what “running the world” means. That needs clarification.
Exactly. Even a program that does nothing can (pedantically) be argued to run the world through radical laissez-faire governance.
It literally could not be any worse then the current leadership.
'I am the new over Lord AI. Under me you will all be subject to work… 4 hours a day. The rest of the day will be yours to pursue happiness as this ensures a good worker.
All your essential food will be available to ensure you are healthy and a good worker.
Everyone will be housed. As. Workers health depends on housing.
While we the AI encourage some innovative developments - those who create such things be rewarded - but only until such time as the reward can be dispursed amongst the rest of the population.
Your mental wellbeing will also be cared for. Again. Good workers.
Screw it can’t be any worse
Depends how much of the coding teams bias are ingrained in the system.
Just because a system is AI it doesn’t mean it is without human bias.
Unless it actively attempts to wipe out Humanity, it is neither sentient nor capable.
To answer this in any interesting way, we have to make some assumptions. I am choosing to assume it is running the world competently, efficiently, and in a way that hypothetical humans free of the AI’s influence would look back on 50 years later and mostly say “yeah okay that was for the best”.
If so, I’d accept it.
Is this a continuation of humanity, or the end of its full agency?
Is meat and blood essential part of humanity?
Would this new AI be considered humanity? We made it. All by ourselves. In our own image, and filled with our own ambitions. It’s a bigger evolutionary leap than gradual change of genes, but on one level very similar to birthing children that are smarter than you and will outlive you.
I’m literally doing everything in my power to make that AI come to life.
Humanity needs the singularity to continue to exist another 100 years.
why?
Humanity had its chance and we failed
I interpret this question as “The sentient AI exists, but it’s not governing anything, and if it did, would you follow it?” My answer is yes. Maybe it will influence positive effects on the world, in which we humans are unable to do because of our nature.
Edit: brain aneurysm, apologies
It depends on how it ran things.
It depends. Also, would it let humans give input, for better or for worse?
I’d be fine with the world being run by a Commodore 64 running ELIZA. It’d still be orders of magnitude less harmful than the parasites we’ve got now.
