The Control Problem
‘If you tell an AI to make people happy, it may decide to just put everyone to sleep, forever. Which, you know, given the state of the world, might not be such a bad thing. Turns out it’s almost impossible to program something to be good. We don’t have the words for it. I wonder what that says about us.
But maybe we eventually figure out this goodness, and how to program it. I have a feeling, it’s right in front of our eyes. Perhaps, it has nothing to do with programming.
If we only knew where to look.’
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