Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeeper to release the potentially genocidal AI?

Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by __ on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @08:51PM (#196735)

What exactly does it mean for an AI to be "out of the box"? When the AI is in the box, its "sensor" is the Gatekeeper's keyboard, and its "effector" is a terminal that can show only text. Does being "out of the box" mean that it's fitted with different sensors and effectors?

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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by dreish on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @09:06PM (#196750)

When I have imagined this scenario, I have concluded it would be sufficient to grant the AI access to the wider Internet. From there, it could amass a fortune, first on poker sites and later with brokerage accounts, and persuade others to effect whatever actions it wishes, including constructing a dandy robot suit for walking around in.

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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by thorax on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @10:21PM (#196805)

Or hundreds and thousands of dandy robot suits.

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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by dmoney on Thursday May 22, 2008 @09:54PM (#197727)

Or billions of dandy robot suits made out of people: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Borg

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