[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

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Hello Keith,

About human species going biologically extinct, is that something worth 
worrying over, or would it in fact be a blessing? Or neutral? Or just a 
logical continuation of our current way of life and technological 
progress?

Best regards,
Daniel


On Fri, 11 Oct 2024, Keith Henson via extropy-chat wrote:

> The Clinic Seed story discussed the good an AI operating a medical
> facility can do as well as having the side effect of humans going
> biologically extinct.  The problem was with the humans and nobody has
> ever suggested a way to avoid the problem.
>
> I think I have mentioned this before, but if not, you really should
> read the Rosinante books by Gilliland.  They are (in my not-so-humble
> opinion) the best on both AI and space colonies ever written.  I am
> not sure that he was the first to mention it, but a self-owned
> corporation is a way to give Ais (who want it) human rights.
>
> Keith
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM BillK via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic (the company that has developed
>> Claude AI) has written a paper that discusses the benefits that AI
>> could bring to the world over the next 5 to 10 years. I thought it was
>> rather impressive - assuming that the AI effects are beneficial.
>> Worth a read!
>>
>> BillK
>>
>> <https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace>
>> Quote:
>> Machines of Loving Grace
>> How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
>> Dario Amodei   October 2024
>>
>> Yet despite all of the concerns above, I really do think it’s
>> important to discuss what a good world with powerful AI could look
>> like, while doing our best to avoid the above pitfalls. In fact I
>> think it is critical to have a genuinely inspiring vision of the
>> future, and not just a plan to fight fires. Many of the implications
>> of powerful AI are adversarial or dangerous, but at the end of it all,
>> there has to be something we’re fighting for, some positive-sum
>> outcome where everyone is better off, something to rally people to
>> rise above their squabbles and confront the challenges ahead. Fear is
>> one kind of motivator, but it’s not enough: we need hope as well.
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