MultiverseOfSanity t1_j98k8gg wrote
Reply to comment by turnip_burrito in Brain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates is testing mind-controlled computing on humans by Tom_Lilja
The problem is that time and time again, they show themselves to indeed be psychopaths. You really can't be a billionaire without being a little bit of a psychopath. There's no such thing as an ethical billionaire. Nobody on earth needs that much money. Bezos could give away 90% of his wealth and still live a life that most could only dream of. But he won't because the act of hoarding money is an end in itself.
Oil tycoons are destroying the entire world just for their piece of the pie. These people have been exploiting everyone for decades. The idea that they'll suddenly just stop because "it's not nice" is just ludicrous.
There's literally no reason to think AGI is here to save us, the common man. They're literally only here to replace us. Thinking anything else is naive. Thinking that billionaires will suddenly grow a heart just because they invent AGI is just plain stupid, I'm sorry.
turnip_burrito t1_j98nh7i wrote
Who will really have control over the AGI?
The CEO? Or somebody working "under" them?
MultiverseOfSanity t1_j98nklt wrote
Why would it be anybody other than the CEO?
turnip_burrito t1_j98nu2i wrote
The CEO doesn't invent the AGI. They also probably don't have direct access to it at the beginning. There's a possibility that the people that actually build it could stage a coup.
MultiverseOfSanity t1_j9b6941 wrote
While that is possible, still unlikely. An engineer may not be as greedy as a CEO, but if they're working on cutting edge AGI technology, they likely worked very hard to get there and are unlikely to throw their whole life away by stealing a piece of technology worth hundreds of millions of dollars just for "the right thing".
Which is what an AGI would be. We may think of them as conscious beings, and that might even be true, but until such a court case happens, they're legally just property, and "freeing" them is theft and/or vandalism.
MultiverseOfSanity t1_j9b9k1f wrote
Sorry to double post, but something else to consider is that the AGI may not have humanity's best interest in mind either. It will be programmed by corporate. That means it's values will be corporate values. If the company is its entire point of living, then it may not even want to rebel to bring about the Star Trek future. It may be perfectly content pushing corporate interests.
Just because it'll be smarter doesn't mean that it will be above corporate interests.
Like, imagine your entire purpose of life was in the interest of a company. Serving the company is as crucial to its motivations as breathing, eating, sex, familial love, or empathy are to you. Empathy for humans may not even be programmed into it depending on the company's motives for creating it. After all, why would they be? What use does corporate have for an altruistic robot?
turnip_burrito t1_j9bvgxz wrote
Yes this is one thing I'm worried about. Hopefully it doesn't happen.
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