What I wonder is, are we actually talking "artificial sentience"? Because if so, destroy it at once! As far as I can tell, this "artificial intelligence" business is really just an extraordinarily complicated database, or connected set of databases – but human nature being what it is, that's already dangerous enough.
Thanks Roy. In a world of scarcity, everything gets corrupted, as I have stated. Think of AI as a really capable slave that does not mind being exploited. I became a science fiction fan in high school, and the perils of AI and robots have been themes for about a century or so, such as in With Folded Hands:
That is more what we are facing, but only when scarcity is permanently abolished, and AI can play an important role. That nightmare world that Roads visited was also technologically advanced:
What I wonder is, are we actually talking "artificial sentience"? Because if so, destroy it at once! As far as I can tell, this "artificial intelligence" business is really just an extraordinarily complicated database, or connected set of databases – but human nature being what it is, that's already dangerous enough.
Thanks Roy. In a world of scarcity, everything gets corrupted, as I have stated. Think of AI as a really capable slave that does not mind being exploited. I became a science fiction fan in high school, and the perils of AI and robots have been themes for about a century or so, such as in With Folded Hands:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
Never mind The Terminator! :) Think Star Trek's computer in the Fifth Epoch, or the world that Michael Roads once visited:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
That is more what we are facing, but only when scarcity is permanently abolished, and AI can play an important role. That nightmare world that Roads visited was also technologically advanced:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115
It is all about choosing love or failing to, and in a world of scarcity, it is really hard to choose love, when people's survival is at stake.