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Comment author: timtyler 13 November 2009 10:31:47PM *  2 points [-]

From that AAAI document:

"The group suggested outreach and communication to people and organizations about the low likelihood of the radical outcomes".

"Radical outcomes" seems like a case of avoiding refutation by being vague. However, IMO, they will need to establish the truth of their assertion before they will get very far there. Good luck to them with that.

Comment author: timtyler 14 November 2009 10:41:57PM *  1 point [-]

The AAAI interim report is really too vague to bother much with - but I suspect they are making another error.

Many robot enthusiasts pour scorn on the idea that robots will take over the world. How To Survive A Robot Uprising is a classic presentation on this theme. A hostile takeover is a pretty unrealistic scenario - but these folk often ignore the possibility of a rapid robot rise from within society driven by mutual love. One day robots will be smart, sexy, powerful and cool - and then we will want to become more like them.