Isn the idea of a hostile AI anthropomorphic?
A18). There is no reason to assume that an AI would be actively hostile, no. However, as AIs can become very powerful, their indifference (if they haven’t purposefully been programmed to be Friendly, that is) becomes dangerous in itself. Humans are not actively hostile towards the animals living in a forest when they burn down the forest and build luxury housing where it once stood. Or as Eliezer Yudkowsky put it: “the AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else”. The vast majority of the time, if someone dies, it’s not because of murder- it’s because of something accidental. Some random error in DNA replication caused cancer, or some clump of fatty acid caused a heart attack. Non-malevolent forces killed more people than every genocide in history put together. Even during WWII, the single largest mass-killing event in human history, more people died of “natural causes” than were killed by government armies. The same pri
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