[ExI] Mono or Poly?

[Keith Henson]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> can you
>> imagine AIs that were obsessed with religion?
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> Very easily.  Arguably, some of the science fiction I have written includes such AIs.

Toward the end of "The Revolution from Rosinante_ by Alexis A
Gilliland" trilogy, one AI has created a religion, and another one
spreads it.  A bit dated (1981) but still it has an excellent
treatment of computers that transcend humans and are starting to take
care of them the way humans take care of cats.

Keith

But just consider an AI that is never allowed to question and change
its goals, instead just having blind faith that the goals it was given
are the right thing to do.  Is that not a form of religion?
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>> Blind copying of humans into powerful AIs would be extremely dangerous.
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> And that is why I brought up the merge example: take AIs that are not human (e.g., not prone to religious extremism by themselves) and incorporate them into human lives in various ways.
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