Risto_Saarelma comments on AI Box Log - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Dorikka 27 January 2012 04:47AM

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 27 January 2012 05:53:44AM *  6 points [-]

It very likely isn't. The purpose of the experiment is to show that people can end up releasing the pretend-AIs even when they go in assuming that keeping AIs in a box is a sufficient safeguard against potential unfriendliness, so you might not want to plan building potentially unfriendly AIs and keeping them in a box as a safeguard.