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The_Jaded_One comments on Superintelligence 16: Tool AIs - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: The_Jaded_One 04 January 2015 05:47:01PM 0 points [-]

The fundamental problems with "tool AI" are

(1) The difficulty of specifying what it means for a superintelligent system to only have a limited or bounded effect.

(2) The difficulty of getting an oracle AI to "just tell the truth" when the questions you ask it don't have a simple, straight answer that can be told, and where the choices about what to say will have significant effects upon the world such that you would be better off explicitly having a sovereign AI because your oracle is now moonlighting as a sovereign when it chooses how to answer.