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A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough.

Drawn from what Émile P. Torres said

SubjectsAI alignmentconsciousness
What this subject means

consciousness What it is for there to be something it is like to be a system, and whether that can be measured.

On the topicCan a machine be conscious?under our view: What a machine does and what it is owed can be argued without knowing what it feels

What Émile P. Torres actually said

  1. Émile P. Torres Philosopher and historian of human extinction
    A superintelligence whose goal system is even slightly misaligned with ours could, being far more powerful than any human or human institution, bring about human extinction for the very same reason that construction workers routinely slaughter large populations of ants.

    Where this was said

    ↗Why superintelligence is a threat that should be taken seriouslythebulletin.org

    24 Oct 2017

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