{"id":1238,"date":"2024-05-04T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2024-05-04T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:09:11","slug":"the-only-way-to-deal-with-the-threat-from-ai-shut-it-down-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Without that precision and preparation, the most likely outcome is AI that does not do what we want, and does not care for us nor for sentient life in general. That kind of caring is something that could in principle be imbued into an AI but we are not ready and do not currently know how. Absent that caring, we get \u201cthe AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, and you are made of atoms it can use for something else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6266923\/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough\/\">The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down | TIME<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"self-baseline px-0 font-pt-serif text-17px leading-7 tracking-0.5px\">Without that precision and preparation, the most likely outcome is AI that does not do what we want, and does not care for us nor for sentient life in general. That kind of caring is something that\u00a0<i>could in principle<\/i>\u00a0be imbued into an AI but\u00a0<i>we are not ready\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>do not currently know how.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"self-baseline px-0 font-pt-serif text-17px leading-7 tracking-0.5px\">Absent that caring, we get \u201cthe AI does not love you, nor does it hate you, and you are made of atoms it can use for something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>An aside: None of this danger depends on whether or not AIs are or can be conscious; it\u2019s intrinsic to the notion of powerful cognitive systems that optimize hard and calculate outputs that meet sufficiently complicated outcome criteria. With that said, I\u2019d be remiss in my moral duties as a human if I didn\u2019t also mention that we have no idea how to determine whether AI systems are aware of themselves\u2014since we have no idea how to decode anything that goes on in the giant inscrutable arrays\u2014and therefore we may at some point inadvertently create digital minds which are truly conscious and ought to have rights and shouldn\u2019t be owned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without that precision and preparation, the most likely outcome is AI that does not do what we want, and does not care for us nor for sentient life in general. That kind of caring is something that could in principle be imbued into an AI but we are not ready and do not currently know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-risks","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carloswsmith.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}