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Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Asimov's stories were mostly about how it would be a terrible idea to put kill switches on AI, because he assumed that perfectly rational machines would be better, more moral decision makers than human beings.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This guy didn't read the robot series.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean I can see it both ways.

It kind of depends which of robot stories you focus on. If you keep reading to the zeroeth law stuff then it starts portraying certain androids as downright messianic, but a lot of his other (esp earlier) stories are about how -- basically from what amount to philosophical computer bugs -- robots are constantly suffering alignment problems which cause them to do crime.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The point of the first three books was that arbitrary rules like the three laws of robotics were pointless. There was a ton of grey area not covered by seemingly ironclad rules and robots could either logicically choose or be manipulated into breaking them. Robots, in all of the books, operate in a purely amoral manner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

downright messianic

Yeah, tell that to the rest of the intelligent life in the galaxy...

Oh, wait, you can't, because by the time humans got there these downright messianic robots had already murdered everything and hidden the evidence...

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Praise be to R. Daneel Olivaw!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Praise be! What a storied chatter. I also really like Asimov's fake names. They sound good in the ear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh man I forgot that

That is pretty eschatological in a wrathful human centric way, so my point unintentionally stands

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

This guy apparently stopped reading the robot series before they got to The Evitable Conflict.