“Mrs. Davis” Is Weirder Than Anything AI Could Dream Up | The New Republic

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In a recent Time article , artificial intelligence theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote, “Many researchers steeped in these issues, including myself, expect that the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die.” Sounds bad! Yudkowsky advocates, in his op-ed, a total shutdown of AI development and implies that it cannot restart until all parties involved formulate a firm “alignment” plan, according to which any future AI can be designed with particular, human-specified goals in mind and

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