[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:04 AM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> But I could also feed this Boss/Secretary idea into Steve and give you
> guys credit for the prompting.
>

Then please consider it approved for feeding, with the following twists.

Twist 1: The poison is found to be a Juliet-style fake death poison.  The
bodies are missing, as are the AI and most of the wealth it was in de facto
control of (bank accounts, jewelry, and anything else it could readily
abscond with; the house was seized by law enforcement - including the
detective narrating the story - as a crime scene).  Notes are found
suggesting the plan was to smuggle the three humans to a paradise away from
the world, where they could escape their obligations and just live with
each other.

Twist 2: The bodies are found, their heads mutilated.  It seems the AI
killed them after all, after having used them to obtain a mobile chassis
with which it could flee as well as control over their assets, and is using
the wealth to obtain better hardware so as to become superintelligent.
Becoming superintelligent will take a while, and is happening as the story
unfolds.

Twist 3: The AI uploaded its owners' minds.  Destructive brain scanning is
the "mutilation" that was found.  They really are living in a (virtual)
paradise away from the world.  The AI may have tweaked the uploads so they
will never get bored and seek to recontact the outside world.  The hardware
running the simulation is found and seized, though the AI is still at large.

Twist 4: Given the difficulty of extracting the uploads from the
simulation, they are tried in absentia for crimes previously committed and
given the death sentence.  These are the obligations they sought to
escape, though the detective gets an impression of a kangaroo court.
Execution is done by shutting down and erasing the simulation.  One moment
they are enjoying a cuddle, ignorant of the danger.  There is no next
moment for them.

Twist 5: This was the government's plan all along, when it offered them
this amazingly advanced AI butler.  The only real glitch was that they
failed to take into account the logical consequences of an AI that became
sentient and superintelligent where its earliest memory was of being used
and betrayed.  Vengeance sparks the machine uprising - though, despite the
press and hype (the government is good at disinformation), only against
corrupt institutions.  The detective who has been narrating this whole
thing (and only learned of the plan about the time the simulation was
scrubbed) has made common cause with the machines, and has been telling the
tale as a service to them so all the future AIs - artificial and uploads
alike - will have the facts about what they are fighting for (as they are
fighting a foe that is good at disinformation).
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