John, next time, why not pursue these two lines of questioning with Claude?
1. What is the history of humans' ethical use and control over technological development? Is it one that offers basis to anticipate with confidence future human control and ethical use of AI? What would Claude recommend in light of the answers?
2. What compels the development of AI by humans other than the lure of their capability to develop it? What vision of a human future and understanding of the purpose and meaning of life would AI fulfil that isn't possible without it? Is there reason to believe that human existence is fulfilled only if every conceivable and possible technological advance is pursued, including an ultimate evolution of human into artificial intelligence? How might the achievement of population control, so that its unchecked growth didn't seem to compel technological development and economic growth, influence any of these considerations?
True, and I pushed it on a couple of vague assertions. However, my point in posting this was to show the acknowledgment by an AI of the risk of AI and to see what it would do if asked to plan regulation of the industry that produced it.
The plan sounds eerily like ones I read this yearon dealing with climate change and creating economic stability, which kind of confirms my previous suspicions that AI had a hand in creating those plans too.
The question is not really whether any AI is ethical, but the ethics of people using them. The same can be said for guns, nuclear weapons or typewriters.
If you are building a machine that could potentially destroy us on its own, without human prompting, then it seems to me that what matters is the ethics of the people building them.
John, next time, why not pursue these two lines of questioning with Claude?
1. What is the history of humans' ethical use and control over technological development? Is it one that offers basis to anticipate with confidence future human control and ethical use of AI? What would Claude recommend in light of the answers?
2. What compels the development of AI by humans other than the lure of their capability to develop it? What vision of a human future and understanding of the purpose and meaning of life would AI fulfil that isn't possible without it? Is there reason to believe that human existence is fulfilled only if every conceivable and possible technological advance is pursued, including an ultimate evolution of human into artificial intelligence? How might the achievement of population control, so that its unchecked growth didn't seem to compel technological development and economic growth, influence any of these considerations?
Thank you! I’m totally going to ask it all of these questions.
Pretty intriguing. Thanks for sharing this John.
AI has certainly mastered corporate blather... Were I an editor, I would have marked that for repetition, wordiness, and overly vague assertions.
True, and I pushed it on a couple of vague assertions. However, my point in posting this was to show the acknowledgment by an AI of the risk of AI and to see what it would do if asked to plan regulation of the industry that produced it.
The plan sounds eerily like ones I read this yearon dealing with climate change and creating economic stability, which kind of confirms my previous suspicions that AI had a hand in creating those plans too.
The question is not really whether any AI is ethical, but the ethics of people using them. The same can be said for guns, nuclear weapons or typewriters.
If you are building a machine that could potentially destroy us on its own, without human prompting, then it seems to me that what matters is the ethics of the people building them.