David_J._Balan comments on Ghosts in the Machine - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 June 2008 11:29PM

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Comment author: David_J._Balan 26 June 2008 03:21:44AM 0 points [-]

Along the lines of some of the commenters above, it's surely not telling Eliezer anything he doesn't already know to say that there are lots of reasons to be scared that a super-smart AI would start doing things we wouldn't like even without believing that an AI is necessarily a fundamentally malevolent ghost that will wriggle out of whatever restraints we put it in.