Please read on, I would have removed the snarky intro
Tried...
Hypothetical unfriendliness perpetrated by AI is an untenable concept but the concept has specious validity due to the current scarcity-bias.
Nope, still crap.
Some people want to redefine sentience so that it merely means friendliness.
Where did that come from?
The whole friendliness obsession is tantamount to mental illness, it is extremely irrational, very unbalanced.
Worse and worse.
My original rule of thumb confirmed.
The reasoning of most of the people on this site and at MIRI is that to prevent an AI taking over the world and killing us all; we must first create an AI that will take over the world but act according to the wishes of humanity; a benevolent god, for want of a better term. I think this line of thinking is both unlikely to work and ultimately cruel to the FAI in question, for the reasons this article explains:
http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/16/my-hostility-towards-the-concept-of-friendly-ai/