[ExI] Unfriendly AI is a mistaken idea

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 01:12:50AM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:
>    Name: Tools are neither friendly nor unfriendly

If tools are persons, yes, they are.  

>    One Line: Friendliness and unfriendliness are properties of
>    self-willed agents (produced by evolution for survival in the wild),
>    not of tools (produced by human engineers).

If a piano falls on the top of your head, you're still dead.
And no malice intended.

Pollution is a killer feature of systems, produced by human engineers.

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Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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