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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A super benevolent perfectly compassionate AI to lead humanity

I was posting in a discusssion board recently and I came across an overly optimistic and altruistic view of human nature thread (see title).

This is what I wrote in reply.

'A super benevolent all powerful AI...' will have to be programmed with Asimov's first robotic law or destroy the robotself before hurting humans law' preinstalled, to be considered perfect by me in every way. It has to have an emotion chip put in to love and aid humanity even at the threat of its own mainframe destruction. You can always manufacture robot parts but too late when organic humans are killed by mistake. I think the way to make this AI failsafe is to create/build/assemble constructor robots first that will in turn create the final model in complete isolation. This is the only way it can happen I think. We are already doing that with cars today. Or if its creation is left to careless humans, I can see its superb potential use as Guantanamo style torture mechanism if something went wrong or was corrupted by human imperfect agency in its making. Makes sense that human error interacting with the AI inevitably ruins its mechanical perfection.

The thought of a benevolent, god-like AI that prevent humans from hurting each other sounds like a boring goody two shoes to me but it could be a horrible yet potentially heart attack inducing horror scifi movie scenario in the making, a blockbuster winner perhaps if you add a human error or corrupt agency in the plot?

I don't know about you but this synopsis is really reminding me of a 60's or 70's Woody Allen movie. His character was a robot who got addicted to an emotion touching ball. Unfortunately for him it happened to be a lust inducing ball but he could not do anything about it, as he was a housefrau model with an androgenous caring and sensitivity sensor byproduct of its emotion chip, yet haven't got any genitals to fulfil the surge of lust it felt from the lust ball device. This conundrum created a Kafkaesque, comedic hilarity, tinged with tragedy felt by the viewer toward the sexually frustrated robot character. Sorry, but I can't remember the title of that movie.

What I am indirectly saying here is that for something like that to happen it would have to be a eunuch with no emotions, purely logical and unable to reproduce itself or we humans will have big trouble. It will decide pretty quickly not to find any uses for mere humans.

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