[ExI] Unfrendly AI is a mistaken idea.

[Samantha Atkins]

Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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> On 24/05/07, *BillK* <pharos at gmail.com <mailto:pharos at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     '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????
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>     Once the tech becomes available it won't just be nice
>     intellectuals that use it.
>     The brutal, vicious gangster-types will use it also.
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>     That's the trouble with tools. The bad guys get them as well.
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> 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.
>
I believe I see a basic assumption that humans are and always will be 
more trustworthy (moral?)  than non-biological intelligences.  

- samantha