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shminux comments on LessWrong's attitude towards AI research - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Florian_Dietz 20 September 2014 03:02PM

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Comment author: shminux 20 September 2014 03:34:03PM 1 point [-]

The outreach, if successful, is likely to result in an AGI race, because "our team is the only one we can trust". Hopefully the NSA and its Chinese and Russian equivalents haven't taken the message seriously yet.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 September 2014 08:22:11PM *  2 points [-]

There isn't any indication that governments would be involved in the creation of AGI at any level greater than the hands-off funding of research grants.