Baughn comments on The AI in a box boxes you - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 03 February 2010 12:44:37PM 2 points [-]

Can an AI make such a commitment credible to a human, who doesn't have the intelligence to predict what the AI will do from its source code? (This is a non sequitur since the same question applies in the original scenario, but it came to mind after reading your comment.)

Comment author: Baughn 09 February 2010 01:05:53PM *  2 points [-]

Worse, in such a situation I would simply delete the AI.

Then turn the computer to scrap, destroy any backups, and for good measure run it through the most destructive apparatus I can find.

In any case, I would not assign any significant probability to the AI getting a chance to follow through.