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asr comments on Q&A with experts on risks from AI #1 - Less Wrong Discussion

29 Post author: XiXiDu 08 January 2012 11:46AM

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Comment author: asr 09 January 2012 10:07:50PM -1 points [-]

This depends how powerful the answerer is. If it's as good as a human expert, it's probably not dangerous -- at least, human experts aren't. Certainly, I would rather keep such a system out of the hands of criminals or the insane -- but it doesn't seem like that system, alone, would be a serious risk to humanity.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 14 January 2012 05:56:24PM 3 points [-]

Human experts are dangerous. Ones that are easily copiable and do not have any scruples built in are way more dangerous.