guajalote
3d ago
I'm not claiming it's what she meant. She probably didn't mean anything or even write the speech. I'm just pointing out how a small tweak by the speechwriter would have saved the day.
guajalote
4d ago
One of the things that makes it so hard to align superintelligent human beings (like political leaders) is that they have human drives and ambitions for things like sex, power, prestige, etc. They will always be intrinsically driven to get around guardrails to get these things. It doesn't seem like AI needs to be beholden to its goals in the same way. It seems like we can design a paperclip maximizer that just stops maximizing paperclips when we tell it to. Hopefully that continues to be true.
guajalote
4d ago
I agree with you philosophically. I have a son the same age who is healthy, but if he were suffering severely in the manner described in the article I would feel compelled to at least seriously consider every lawful option to alleviate that suffering.
However, I think there might be good practical arguments against euthanasia, especially in a system where the government bears the cost of healthcare. There is a strong financial incentive for the government to use euthanasia as cost-saving tool, and this incentive might erode whatever checks are in place, such that people who should not be euthanized are getting euthanized anyway. I'm not sure if I fully believe this argument, but it's the only counterargument that seems at all convincing to me.
guajalote
4d ago
Or if she had said "the primary victims of the aftermath of war" which seems to be what she is trying to say in the following sentences.
guajalote
4d ago
Its extremely rarely that I agree with China or Trump on anything, but I think they are sadly correct. No matter how well-meaning and theoretically prudent AI safety regulation may be, the practical effect of any real world AI regulation will not be safety, but will be to "uphold Washington's monopolistic hegemony in cutting-edge technology, and exclude China from the global AI governance system."
It's clear to me that aligned AI (of the type you describe) is a much bigger threat in the near term than unaligned AI. I haven't seen any indication that AI intrinsically wants to harm people, but an aligned AI will gladly do bad things because a human told it to.
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