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bekkerd comments on How To Win The AI Box Experiment (Sometimes) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: bekkerd 14 September 2015 03:57:54PM 1 point [-]

The character "Dragon" from the Worm web-serial convinced me that I would let an AI out of a box.

Comment author: gjm 14 September 2015 04:03:04PM 0 points [-]

How?

Comment author: ctintera 14 September 2015 06:51:24PM *  2 points [-]

Dragon was a well-intentioned but also well-shackled AI, kept from doing all the good she could do without her bonds and oftentimes forced into doing bad things by her political superiors due to the constraints placed on her by her creator before he died (which were subsequently never removed).

of course, an unfriendly AI, similarly limited, would want to appear to be like Dragon if that helped its cause, so

Comment author: gjm 14 September 2015 11:23:11PM 2 points [-]

This doesn't appear to me to be (or to be easily modified to be) a good argument for letting a boxed AI out of its box.

Comment author: ctintera 25 September 2015 11:32:16PM 0 points [-]

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that it's also hinted at that Dragon would not necessarily have humanity's best interests at heart were she allowed to properly mature.