The AI wants to harvest kidneys because it turns out there's some way to use that to make more paperclips. So how did humans end up wanting something other than inclusive genetic fitness? Like if you look at natural selection as an optimization process, it grinds very hard on a very simple thing - greater gene frequency. And yet humans, despite being optimized exclusively for inclusive genetic fitness want this enormous array of other things.
Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen as Yudkowsky speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on why we should be very, very afraid, and why we're not prepared or able to manage the terrifiying risks of artificial intelligence.