News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People. Parent comment

Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by modeless on Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:00PM (#13241946)
It's not that AIs will do worse things than humans have already done. It's that AIs will do those terrible things much more efficiently and with much lower risk to the people in charge.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by Ygg2 on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:30AM (#13243431)
On the plus side - no more rape.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by keldaris on Friday December 23, 2016 @05:47AM (#13244128)
I don't think you can hope for even that much. Rape has historically been systematically used for terrorizing the population in order to achieve military and/or political aims. An AI free from any ethical concerns could conceivably evaluate it as an efficient strategy for achieving some set of goals and proceed accordingly.
[ Parent | on HN ]