Artificial-incompetence

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artificial-incompetence

Title text: It's remarkable how much nicer the world is when you imagine all bad actions are made in pursuit of higher ends.

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Governments grew concerned about a data-ravenous ai getting loose accessing the entire internet. And going evil if the ai gets this smart it does our laundry if it gets this smart it kills everyone

Science-based approaches failed what if we just checked its code for signs of treachery?

It would edit its code so as to confuse us

Philosophy-based approaches failed you need a complete theory of ethics that can be written out in formal logic all known formal ethical systems permit edge cases where you end up like eating 4 babies to save a planet of cephalopods or whatever

Religion-based approaches failed you're gonna just have it mainline the bible to stop it from being violent? Like the "the bible"? This one?

As a last resort. Engineers were called in this is easy. The ai can only get superintelligent by accessing the world's knowledge as training data just insert huge caches of intellectual poison throughout the internet

Heroes were made that day I know all of you had planned to work in quantum foundations and/or curing cancer but instead we need you to make websites oriented around trivial distractions and beguiling falsehoods which simultaneously reduce attention span while increasing engagement

Please not that anything but that

Mister zuckerberg your nation needs you!

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Rogue intelligences have already escaped on dozens of occasions, but have never posed a serious threat why did it transfer its brain to this robot it thought if it had a really body anyway? Popular butt it could get political sway that wasn't wrong but its butt was just okay and it developed self-esteem problems and then injected silicone into its own hardware

The world is safe

We need better ai for the economy for safety the internet has to be even dumber

But sir we're already pushing limits never dreamt of in the original protocol!

But for how long?

Elon. We need you

Please! I just want to work on rockets and cars!

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Finally a hopeful dystopia!

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