The reasoning of most of the people on this site and at MIRI is that to prevent an AI taking over the world and killing us all; we must first create an AI that will take over the world but act according to the wishes of humanity; a benevolent god, for want of a better term. I think this line of thinking is both unlikely to work and ultimately cruel to the FAI in question, for the reasons this article explains:
If you leave their mind unaltered, you just have a human. They're not smart enough to really be useful. Once you start altering it, insanity becomes a likely result.
Best case scenario, you get one person's CEV. Most likely scenario, you get someone too insane to be useful. Worst case, you have an insane supergenius.
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Do you have a precise definition of "ethical" in mind? Where by "precise" I mean something roughly equivalent to a math paper.
Without such a definition, how will you know the person in question is ethical? With such a definition, how will you guarantee that the person in question meets it, will continue to meet it, etc.? How certain are you such a person exists?
The reasoning of most of the people on this site and at MIRI is that to prevent an AI taking over the world and killing us all; we must first create an AI that will take over the world but act according to the wishes of humanity; a benevolent god, for want of a better term. I think this line of thinking is both unlikely to work and ultimately cruel to the FAI in question, for the reasons this article explains:
http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/01/16/my-hostility-towards-the-concept-of-friendly-ai/