Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Will AI Be The End of Everything?" video.

I love Isaac Asimov's writing. His Three Laws of Robotics weren't meant to be realistic, though. Their purpose was to stimulate interesting ideas for stories, as his characters continually tried to think of edge cases and ways around them - but the idea of instilling a very basic "ethical operating system" in every AI is a good one. If they were all programmed to do good at the most basic level of code, it might head off all sorts of situations where people try to misuse them. In that case their increasing levels of intelligence would work in our favor, since they'd be increasingly better able to understand "good" uses and refuse to do "bad" ones, even when we don't understand why it won't do what we say. But we'd have to find some way to make sure the AI didn't reinterpret good beyond the immediate situation (IE: is this command the user is giving me "good" for him and other humans right now), and don't develop some sort of moral philosophy where they only work for the good of the human species. No ends justify the means thinking for our flying weapons platforms, please!
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