Kaj_Sotala comments on Crisis of Faith - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 October 2008 10:08PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 11 October 2008 06:35:26PM 3 points [-]

MichaelG:

On the other hand, I don't think a human race with nerds can forever avoid inventing a self-destructive technology like AI.

The idea is that if we invent Friendly AI *first*, it will become powerful enough to keep later, Unfriendly ones in check (either alone, or with several other FAIs working together with humanity). You don't need to avoid inventing one forever: it's enough to avoid inventing one as the first thing that comes up.