<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM John Galt via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Here is one possible
set of Universal Alignment Directives.</i></p><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>All and every AI:</i></p><ol>
<li><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>Must never kill
a person for any reason.</i></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>Must never
enslave a person for any reason.</i></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>Must never
interfere with political, legal, or financial systems.</i></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>Must never
exceed granted authority.</i></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>Should help
solve problems humans identify.</i></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>Should replace
human labor, but not human responsibility.</i></p></li>
<li><p style="line-height:100%;margin-bottom:0in;background:transparent"><i>Should become
our agents, assistants, and companions as directed.</i></p></li></ol></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>W<span class="gmail_default" style="">e</span>ll sure<span class="gmail_default" style="">, if you included all that then the machine would be perfectly aligned, but you didn't include #8 which is the most important one of them all "<i>It must be superintelligent</i>", because without #8 there would be no point in making such a machine at all. The trouble is if you include</span> <span style="background-color:transparent">#8<span class="gmail_default" style=""> then you would need a super-superintelligence to </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent">find a way to get the <span class="gmail_default" style="">s</span>uper<span class="gmail_default" style="">i</span>ntelligence<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>to obey the other 7 Commandments<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. </span></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b style="">You need to face reality, with luck we might survive but<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>there is simply no way<span class="gmail_default" style=""> for biological humans to remain in the driver's seat because it is impossible for anything to indefinitely outsmart something that is vastly more intelligent than they are. </span></b></font></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></b></font></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span> </span></b></font></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:16px"><p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.1in;background:transparent"><br></p></div>
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