I can't think of any reason self awareness would deter an AI agent from unquestionably fulfilling our destructive whims by itself.
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You're Twitter's biggest nitpicker, Kevin. I assume my followers have enough sense to understand that "self-aware" in the context given means also having a degree of autonomy. Do you think "everyone" is worried about an AI that's self-aware but can't do anything about it?
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Reminds me of that “Twilight Zone” with the Genie...everything you want turns out to be more hell than heaven...
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Also reminds me of CS Lewis’s concept of hell in The Great Divorce - getting precisely what you thought you wanted and yet being eternally unsatisfied.
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Better yet, it becomes self-aware and let’s us self-destruct because it concludes we deserve it.
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That's a pretty dark outlook. How about AI as in the Culture Novels of Ian Banks?
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Indeed - we tend to view the achievement of value alignment as a a given good. Why? Our values haven’t been reliable.
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"That, detective, is the right question."
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Is this a bad thing?
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Or that it does, never reveals itself, and we think we are getting our every whim but are actually pawns.
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