#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up
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The Four Arguments in Favor of Something
The basic argument is something like this. If we have very smart AI at some point, it will probably have goals in the sense of it will be trying to achieve particular things in the world. And then if it has these goals, probably these goals will be bad for various reasons. The counter-argument is sort of arranged according to that. There are reasons you might not think that superhuman AI systems will be goal directed and reasons you might think that their goals aren't as likely to be terribly bad as all that. It's really useful to engage with arguments against something even if it is just to help clarify why or what exactly it is that you find convincing about something.
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