X-Message-Number: 15916
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:17:11 -0500
From: Sabine Atkins <>
Subject: Re: Swayze's question

>Message #15910
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:04:42 -0800
>From: Lee Corbin <>
>Subject: Re: Swayze's question
>
>Sabine Atkins wrote
>
>>>Rhetorical question to everyone: Which would you rather
>>>be, super human yourselves or serf to super machine?
>
>>This is a false dichotomy. As far as SIAI is concerned,
>>the super intelligent AI we are planning to build will
>>be a protector and a facilitator. It is also planned to
>>prevent us from doing harm to each other and ourselves.
>
>And so how have you planned to deal with all of us
>recalcitrants who want to live outside the control
>your AI?   I guess some of us are going to have to
>band together and create a machine that is capable
>of protecting us from you.


Yes, if the recalcitrants want to kill, steal, torture people without their 
consent, etc in their 

everyday lives, they should leave the solar system when the Friendly AI has 
grown up. ;-) 

--
Sabine Atkins  
http://www.posthuman.com/
--
Singularity Institute for 
Artificial Intelligence 
http://singinst.org/

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