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Why could an AGI system not design better robots, convince us we need to give it control of a robot army for our own protection and then mess us up??

Could you imagine how convincing an AGI would be?



I could imagine that, but I haven’t witnessed that.

What I’ve witnessed is a very conventional client/server web application that runs in a very conventional hosting scheme where best practice security IAM controls are still applied just like everything else I’ve ever deployed.

What I’ve withessed is a system that won’t allow you to ask for anything that’s remotely illegal, and the assumption that those controls would just disappear seems unlikely to me. That’s kinda like saying YouTube is going to start allowing you to upload copyrighted movies again like the good old days.

AGI fanatics are like dog owners who saw their dog learn to sit and now believe he’s on pace to get a PhD.




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