Stuart_Armstrong comments on Tools versus agents - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 May 2012 10:55:32AM 0 points [-]

Oracle AIs are tool AGIs like the type described in this post

Maybe the most salient difference is that Oracles are known to be dangerous, and we can think about how to use them safely, wherease tools were presented as just being intrinsically safe by definition.