PECOS-9 comments on So You Want to Save the World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: youwouldntknowme 28 December 2011 04:39:53PM 9 points [-]

Just a random thought: aren't corporations superhuman goal-driven agents, AIs, albeit using human intelligence as one of their raw inputs? They seem like examples of systems that we have created that have come to control our behaviour, with both positive and negative effects? Does this tell us anything about how powerful electronic AIs could be harnessed safely?

Comment author: PECOS-9 30 December 2011 03:23:49AM *  2 points [-]

One difference is that corporations have little chance of leading to an Intelligence Explosion or FOOMing (except by creating AI themselves).