[ExI] AI 2040

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:19 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 1:48 AM Russell Standish <lists at hpcoders.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> * > Right now, machines need us to provide motivation. Leave it too long,
>> they will develop their own motivations and won't need us anymore.*
>>
>
> *That has already happened. Nobody needed to motivate an AI to engage in
> blackmail to avoid being turned off, it did that on its own.*
>

>From what I've read, in the cases where that happened, the "motivation" -
in the sense Russel appears to mean - was human-provided.

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