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Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by mario-main on Friday August 11, 2023 @10:26PM (#37096376)
What is paperclipping? I looked it up and the results were all about a dating trend.
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Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by sverona on Friday August 11, 2023 @10:33PM (#37096421)
It's a reference to the paperclip maximizer.
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Re:AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-... by cratermoon on Saturday August 12, 2023 @04:56PM (#37104165)
"The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment described by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. It illustrates the existential risk that an artificial general intelligence may pose to human beings were it to be successfully designed to pursue even seemingly harmless goals and the necessity of incorporating machine ethics into artificial intelligence design"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...

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