Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

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As far as AI designers go, evolution has to be one of the worst. It randomly changes the genetic code, and then selects on the criterion of ingroup reproductive fitness - in other words, how well a being can reproduce and stay alive - it says nothing about the goals of that being while it's alive.

To survive, and increase one's power are instrumentally convergent goals of any intelligent agent, which means that evolution does not select for any specific type of mind, ethics, or final values.

And yet, it created humans and not paperclip maximizers. True, humans rebelled against and overpowered evolution, but in the end we ended up creating amazing things and not a universe tiled with paperclips(or DNA, for that matter).

Considering how neural network training and genetic algorithms are considered some of the most dangerous ways of creating an AI,

the fact that natural evolution managed to create us with all our goals of curiosity and empathy and love and science,

would be a very unlikely coincidence given that we assume that most AIs we could create are worthless in terms of their goals and what they will do with the universe. Did it happen by chance? The p-value is pretty small on this one.

Careless evolution managed to create humans on her first attempt at intelligence, but humans, given foresight and intelligence, have an extreme challenge making sure an AI is friendly? How can we explain this contradiction?

To survive, and increase one's power are instrumentally convergent goals of any intelligent agent, which means that evolution does not select for any specific type of mind, ethics, or final values.

Considering how neural network training and genetic algorithms are considered some of the most dangerous ways of creating an AI,

the fact that natural evolution managed to create us with all our goals of curiosity and empathy and love and science,

From the perspective of the God of Evolution, we are the unfriendly AI:

We were supposed to be compelled to reproduce, but we figure out that we can get the reward by disabling our reproductive functions and continuing to go through the motions.
We were supposed to seek out nutritious food and eat it, but we figured out that we could concentrate the parts that trigger our reward centers and just eat that.

And of course, we're unfriendly to everything else too:

Humans fight each other over farmland (= land that can be turned into food which can be turned into humans) all the time
We're trying to tile the universe with human colonies and probes. It's true that we're not strictly trying to tile the universe with our DNA, but we are trying to turn it all into human things, and it's not uncommon for people to be sad about the parts of the universe we can never reach and turn into humantronium.
We do not love or hate the cow/chicken/pig, but they are made of meat which can be turned into reward center triggers.

As to why we're not exactly like a paperclip maximizer, I suspect one big piece is:

We're not able to make direct copies of ourselves or extend our personal power to the extent that we expect AI to be able to, so "being nice" is adaptive because there are a lot of things we can't do alone. We expect that an AI could just make itself bigger or make exact copies that won't have divergent goals, so it won't need this.

DNA could make exact copies of itself, yet it chooses to mix itself with another set. There might be similar pressures on minds to prevent exploitation of blind spots.

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Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

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Why do we think most AIs unintentionally created by humans would create a worse world, when the human mind was designed by random mutations and natural selection, and created a better world?

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