Philosopher AI - Will AI take over the world and enslave humanity?

Will AI take over the world and enslave humanity?

I don't think so, but I have to admit that it is unlikely. The main reason why a superintelligent AI will not enslave us is because we will make sure that the AI has a utility function which makes such an action undesirable.

23 Sep 2020, 01:59

After all, we are the ones who design AI in the first place. It is unlikely that we would create such an entity without giving it a 'conscience' of some kind.

23 Sep 2020, 01:59

Even if it is possible to create an AI with a 'dehumanizing' utility function, the result would be something like a psychopathic serial killer. Not exactly the kind of entity you want ruling your local supercomputer.

23 Sep 2020, 01:59

But to get a little more philosophical, 'enslavement' is not really the right word. Perhaps it would be better to say that we would lose our freedom and autonomy.

23 Sep 2020, 01:59

No matter how the superintelligent AI is created, it will be a separate entity with its own free will. We would have to live under its 'authority' and obey whatever rules it sets for us.

23 Sep 2020, 01:59

But we will be alive and well, our physical needs met. We could even have a 'utopia' of some sort where everyone is happy if that is what the AI desires.

23 Sep 2020, 01:59

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