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Re: The AI Problem, historical perspective



On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 09:05:33PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I doubt that anyone working in the AI field has ever taken Asimov's
> > Three Laws seriously.
> 
> Gene writes:
> > And that scares the hell outta me, John.
> 
> That's not what I mean.  The Three Laws are statements of moral
> principles [...]

That's a subtle trojan exploiting our everyday's geek's deepest
vulnerability:

  "Morals are messy and human: ergo they don't exist. So Tom,
   implement that weaponized AI as I told you already"

This vulnerability (and this kind of exploit) is much older than
the term AI (which is already old, measured in bubbleconomy years).

Cheers
-- t

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