[ExI] Thousands of scientists pledge not to help build killer AI robots

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Stuart LaForge <avant at sollegro.com> wrote:

*> This Lemay fellow racked up quite a body count but it is dwarfed by the
> likes of Stalin or Temujin*


Some have killed more than Lemay, but not in 6 hours.

>> The puzzling thing is the apparent lack of intelligence in the universe
>> except on this planet , and robots have intelligence.
>
>
> *> When I say "killer AI", I am not speaking of a post-singularity machine
> intelligence that decides to kill us to make room for a hyperspace bypass.
> I am talking about very narrow expert-level AI programmed to kill people
> here and how. Deep blue with a machine gun.This kind of AI has no other
> goal but to kill. If it succeeds in killing us all, it won't be out there
> building Dyson spheres and hailing other stars. It will simply go into a
> power-saving sleep mode until someone else to kill comes along.*


That sounds like the Daleks, they make for a good Doctor Who episode but
like grey goo or out of control paper clip making Nano-machines I don't
think they are a serious worry. It's unlikely that every single intelligent
race in the universe would decide to build such a doomsday machine, and
besides any sort of fixed goal narrow minded device of that sort could be
outsmarted by a more flexible mind. On the other hand robots killing
biological humans to make room for something like a hyperspace bypass is a
real possibility, but intelligent robots would remain so that wouldn't
explain the apparent fact that even our largest telescopes are unable to
find the smallest hint of intelligence anywhere except on this planet. My 2
guesses to explain The Great Filter are we are the first (somebody has to
be) or the robots fall victim to something like electronic drug abuse.

 John K Clark
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