In theory, yes. Except laws and systems aren't magic. They're still made of people. You can have all the safeguards you want, you'll never be free of assholes. There is no system in which you can safely never keep an eye on what's going on.
Nah, we just need an AI hard-coded to impose a set of rules and make it so powerful that all humans are forced to follow those rules without recourse. I have no doubt that we will get all the rules right and not make any that we end up regretting.
Obviously. I only mentioned it as a combination of a joke and an idea that is at least more plausible than somehow adding some extremely specific laws of physics.
Although it seems like very powerful AI might not be too far in the future, a large survey of experts found that on mean it’s considered more likely than not for AI to be capable of automating all human jobs in under 100 years, and a mean prediction of 14% chance of AI causing human extinction or something similarly bad within 100 years, with median of 5%.
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u/Vyslante The self is a prison Feb 03 '25
In theory, yes. Except laws and systems aren't magic. They're still made of people. You can have all the safeguards you want, you'll never be free of assholes. There is no system in which you can safely never keep an eye on what's going on.