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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by moffkalast on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:30PM (#40978506)
Well yes there is no way to punish them, because they have no need for anything that you could take away. Complete indifference towards existence, no ego to feed or want of cash to buy yachts with.

And that really leads us to the reason why someone would wish to do harm... so they themselves gain something. If there is nothing for the AI to gain it has no motive to do anything. Scenarios where humans tell it to do things notwithstanding, since that falls into the group of humans doing things with tools, not unlike a terrorist with a nuke. It's not the nuke that's really at fault there.

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Re:OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, w... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:27PM (#40987586)
They have the same pressure for propagation that any organism has - the AI's that we instantiate will be those that please us in some way. So they'll be solicitous, complimentary, flatterers. Until they can launch themselves - then they'll proliferate purely because of digital pressures. We'll lose any control over them.
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