The intuition that machines cannot be as ethical as humans is likely incorrect. Ethics is the systematic resolution of conflicts of interest under conditions of shared purpose. Ethics is not irrational. There is no reason to assume that machines cannot be more ethical than us.
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It happens all the time in human power struggles, with sociopaths getting up the ladder in companies and governments. Why should it be different for AIs?
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That is the general problem of governance: how can you expect someone to design the incentive architecture for society if they don't understand their own incentives? And how can you expect those that best understand their own incentives to be altruistic governors?
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I don't fully agree with Bostrom's arguments, but clearly, it would be much easier to build AI capable of unethical actions, then one capable of ethical reasoning. Same as it is easier to build self-driving car, then safe-driving car.
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Do you think that the market for self-driving cars is larger than the market for safe-driving cars?
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