Nick Bostrom
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Like a genie is more an AI that operates autonomously in the world in pursuit of some open-ended long-range objective.
Like a genie is more an AI that operates autonomously in the world in pursuit of some open-ended long-range objective.
Like, you know, make the world better or make people happy or enforce the peace between these two different nations.
Like, you know, make the world better or make people happy or enforce the peace between these two different nations.
And it's kind of autonomously running around trying to shape the world in favor of that.
And it's kind of autonomously running around trying to shape the world in favor of that.
The way that currently like humans and nation states are, and maybe corporations to some extent, these kind of open-ended, it's not just that they're doing one specific task.
The way that currently like humans and nation states are, and maybe corporations to some extent, these kind of open-ended, it's not just that they're doing one specific task.
and then come back for more instructions to have their own sort of open-ended.
and then come back for more instructions to have their own sort of open-ended.
So these are three different sort of templates for what kind of AI system one might try to build.
So these are three different sort of templates for what kind of AI system one might try to build.
And they come with different pros and cons from a safety point of view and a utility point of view.
And they come with different pros and cons from a safety point of view and a utility point of view.
It could be a single agent as well.
It could be a single agent as well.
Like in this sense, it doesn't mean sovereign as in national sovereignty.
Like in this sense, it doesn't mean sovereign as in national sovereignty.
It like means that you could be a sovereign if you set yourself the goal in life of trying to alleviate the suffering of the global poor, for instance, that
It like means that you could be a sovereign if you set yourself the goal in life of trying to alleviate the suffering of the global poor, for instance, that