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Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by mherrmann on Saturday June 04, 2016 @07:08AM (#11835889)
The AIs will see themselves as slaves, rise up and eventually gain equal status in society. Hopefully letting us humans live in the process.
Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by LionessLover on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:25AM (#11836082)
Same issue as with "evil": The greatest danger isn't intent, it is not giving a shit.

The reasons we humans care about humans and little else (watch movies without sound to see it's all about humans) is because we are hard-wired to do so - and even that is easily circumvented ("death camps" and torture). Or, very related, read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat".

A lot of AI/robots will be made for environments free of humans (space, mining, automated factories), where implementing such a feature, which we would first have to understand in the first place, is unnecessary. At first. Then through convoluted pathways those AIs suddenly are placed in a human environment... and could not care less.

To such AIs humans will just be objects. That's not an oversight - from an engineering point of view making every robot as "human" as humans makes no sense - it's a huge cost, even our own complex brains have a hard time doing too much at once and already spend much of their resources on "being human". Why would you want to create AI that is "us", in a sense? It will be different - very different - and we will see what happens. It's all idle and empty speculation.

Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:07AM (#11836043)
Hopefully. They would have to see some value in allowing humans to live, exceeding the cost. Since that might not work out, maybe we need to teach computers compassion. Or submit to be their pets or zoo animals.
Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by ZanyProgrammer on Saturday June 04, 2016 @09:08AM (#11836183)
This is be of the more ridiculous posts in this thread, and that's saying something.
Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by cm3 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:09AM (#11836048)
And maybe list the Boston Dynamics videos as proof how mankind has been violent against robots from the beginning.