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2Punx2Furious t1_j1qmwkg wrote

Reply to comment by Ortus12 in One thing ChatGPT desperately needs: An upgrade to its humor by diener1

> Then there will still be a reason to watch human comics, and entertainers, we just won't be overwhelmed by the large scale division that this level of Ai could create.

Until the AI decides that we are no longer allowed to do that, because it goes against the values we gave it. That's one of the reasons why alignment is so hard, even if you think there are no downsides at first, some subtleties can be harmful when they become extreme.

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Ortus12 t1_j1rfmqh wrote

My comment was more in reference to Ai in the current environment.

Once an Ai is powerful enough to do that it will be powerful enough to make us enjoy being nice to each other and not enjoy telling mean jokes.

Free will is entirely an illusion and we are at the mercy of a long string of causality no matter how you look at it. We can either be on the forced track towards greater suffering or the forced track towards greater wellbeing. Those are our only choices.

We should at the minimum implement laws into the Ai to prevent it from using threats or other coercion, to preserve the illusion and feeling of free choice. Currently Chat-GPT does not do threats or coercion so we are on a positive track, currently.

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2Punx2Furious t1_j1rfto7 wrote

> it will be powerful enough to make us enjoy being nice to each other and not enjoy telling mean jokes.

That sounds like lobotomy.

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