[ExI] Unfriendly AI is a mistaken idea

Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com
Sun May 27 00:12:50 UTC 2007


On 5/26/07, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  Each camp has a "name" and a "one line" description so could you come up
> with these for your statement Russell?  The name is meant to be a mnemonic,
> like a file name, and must be less than 25 chars. (You don't want a path of
> camp names like God / Theist / Monotheism / Christian / Mormon /
> Transhumanist to be to long! ;)  The "one line" description is like a camp
> title and can be a little longer.
>

Makes sense! Okay then...

Name: Tools are neither friendly nor unfriendly
One Line: Friendliness and unfriendliness are properties of self-willed
agents (produced by evolution for survival in the wild), not of tools
(produced by human engineers).
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