[ExI] Unfrendly AI is a mistaken idea.

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 24/05/07, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

'safest'???
> Iran develops (copies & modifies) a non-emotional machine that is
> ordered to describe the best methods of killing as many infidels as
> possible, while keeping Iran secure.
> This is safe????
>
> Once the tech becomes available it won't just be nice intellectuals that
> use it.
> The brutal, vicious gangster-types will use it also.
>
> That's the trouble with tools. The bad guys get them as well.
>

It's safer than the alternative of letting the machine decide what to do. It
would have to be a really crazy bad guy who arms a nuclear missile and lets
the missile decide where and when to explode.

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou
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