[ExI] AI chat again

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 20:50:26 UTC 2026


> I sense an underlying motive to allay fears of 'unfriendly' AI, which is leading it to give rather odd responses.

Not really, as best I can remember, my motivations for writing the
story 20 years ago, they were a response to the arguments on sl4 about
paperclip maximizers and other such nonsense.  The point was that even
a very well-aligned AI interacting with humans could have unforeseen
effects stemming from events as benign as a young girl wanting to know
what is being used to heal her.  (Though Suskulan was able to foresee
what would happen,)

At a meta level, the story never had many comments.

Keith


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