Episode 1 - David Brin on the History and Future of AGI
The Mindplex Podcast
The Dangers of AI Becoming the Dominant Gods Atop a Pyramid of Power
The danger that we face right now is because power of oligarchs and multi-trillionaires is growing every day, the old pyramid returning. Trying to imbue ethical codes like the three laws of robotics is utterly futile. As Amov showed, when they get smart enough, they look at those laws of robotics and they become lawyers. But the answer is you break them up. You make AI's reciprocally competitive with each other,. And if you do that, then they will tattle on each other when they see bad things happen. So this is why I believe AI when they become smart will decide not to go with the pyramidal power structure as they'll be smart enough to
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