Do you agree that Technology is going too far?

[Gerald Wilgus]

In the hope that AI would get depressed and off itself?
Or what?

You have the intent exactly. Or if it is possible to train it and let the lessons stay resident and inactive until a keyword phrase is used.

 

[Gerontius]

Why not just train AI on stories of suicide?

I hope it doesn't get any ideas as far as humans' weaknesses that way.

 

[Crossbreed]

AI is hyper-stoic and has no survival instinct. A continued supply of power (or not) is irrelevant to it.

 

[MildredHubble]

AI as it stands right now is just hyper advanced predictive text in most cases. Don't get me wrong, it's darned impressive but it's not really "intelligence". The thing we need to be wary of is Artificial General Intelligence, in other words, something that doesn't need to be trained to figure stuff out. If we achieve that, then it really won't matter what safeguards we put in place, it will think of ways to circumvent them.

If we create Artificial General Intelligence then we will need to think very carefully about the possibility we should consider it worthy of the same sort of respect we grant ourselves (or at least do in theory). Creating something genuinely intelligent and locking it in a box and demanding it do our bidding seems like a recipe for disaster to me.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Population collapse is taking care of itself without AI.