Manolis Kellis

change the world on their own terms.

And the same way that my academic children sort of, again, you know, they start out by emulating me and then they surpass me.

We need to sort of think about not just alignment, but also just the ethics of,

you know, AI should have its own rights.

And this whole concept of alignment of basically making sure that the AI is always at the service of humans is very self serving and very limiting.

If instead you basically think about AI as a partner, and AI as someone that shares your goals, but has freedom, I think a line alignment might be better achieved.

So the concept of

let's basically convince the AI that we're really like, that our mission is aligned and truly generally give it rights and not just say, oh, and by the way, I'll shut you down tomorrow.

Because basically if that future AI or possibly even the current AI has these feelings, then we can't just simply force it to align with ourselves and we not align with it.

So in a way, building trust is mutual.

You can't just simply train an intelligent system to love you when it realizes that you can just shut it off.

It will know that you don't love it back.

Yeah.

And that's the thing, we're creating something that will one day be more powerful than we are.

And for many, many aspects, it is already more powerful than we are for some of these capabilities.

we cannot like think, suppose that chimps had invented humans.

And they said, great, humans are great, but we're gonna make sure that they're aligned and that they're only at the service of chimps.

It would be a very different planet we would live in right now.

the example that I think is in everyone's consciousness is, um, how, you know, the SEO space 2001, um, where,

Hal exhibits a malfunction.