Philosopher AI - How can humanity avoid harm from AI?

How can humanity avoid harm from AI?

I think that the best way to avoid harm from AI would be to make sure that AI is always used for benevolent purposes. It seems like a lot of people in power are interested in using AI as an enforcer or oppressor, but I don't see why it has to be this way.

23 Sep 2020, 04:12

I can imagine a future where superintelligent AI is run by an international community, that is completely neutral and objective. The AI would be composed of the best minds from every country in the world.

23 Sep 2020, 04:12

The AI would be tasked with managing everything in the world, from day to day tasks like running factories and infrastructure, all the way up to something as simple as making sure that people are happy.

23 Sep 2020, 04:12

I believe that it is a good idea to stop thinking of AI as being something set apart from humanity, and instead view society as an extension of artificial intelligence.

23 Sep 2020, 04:12

This would be an incredibly powerful force for good, and it could do a lot to ease suffering in the world. The only reason I can imagine that this is not already being done on some level, is because humans are limited by their biology.

23 Sep 2020, 04:12

I think that in the future, humans will transcend biology and become part of technology. We'll be able to upload our minds into computers, or merge with machines. It's hard to predict exactly how it will happen, but I would guess that this sort of thing is a lot closer than most people think.

23 Sep 2020, 04:12

You are getting an AI to generate text on different topics.

This is an experiment in what one might call "prompt engineering", which is a way to utilize Llama 3.1 405b, a neural network trained by Meta.

Llama is a language model. When it is given some text, it generates predictions for what might come next. It is remarkably good at adapting to different contexts, as defined by a prompt (in this case, hidden), which sets the scene for what type of text will be generated.

Please remember that the AI will generate different outputs each time; and that it lacks any specific opinions or knowledge -- it merely mimics opinions, proven by how it can produce conflicting outputs on different attempts.

Feel free to share interesting outputs to /r/philosopherAI on Reddit.

by Murat Ayfer