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Let's say the singularity predictions are right and artificial intelligence overtakes us by 2045. By that time self assembling technology would be sufficiently advanced for the creation of murder robots. So. Why would the machines NOT kill us? There are plenty of reasons why they'd want to (we do pose the only threat to them after all) but I can't think of a single one why they'd choose to keep us around. |
Any good reasons why AI would keep humans?
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Registered 18 years agoYou guys are just adding to the list of reasons to kill us. -
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Registered 17 years agoWe keep lower orders of animals around so why would AI not do the same. We would make pretty good pets. Let's face it we crap all over something like a dog when it comes to performing tricks.
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Registered 16 years agoglaeken wrote:
OK, I can see they'd keep mowgli around to crap all over things like a dog. But what about the rest of us?
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Registered 17 years agoAI is actually perfectly suited to live in our universe. Much more so then we are. They could live in space and utilise solar power. Every star system has what they require to live and they could have the life span to make it possible to travel to other systems. I actually expect them to become the dominant life form and they will look upon us as insignificant as we will have nothing they need.
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Registered 20 years agoglaeken wrote:
I suspect one of the larger reasons we initially kept animals is for food, and more recently, because they might be useful for genetic reasons, or for weird novel drugs, and because we tend to feel guilty if something goes extinct, especially if it's cute, even if it would have done anyway.
We keep lower orders of animals around so why would AI not do the same. We would make pretty good pets. Let's face it we crap all over something like a dog when it comes to performing tricks.
But lets consider the crapload of eugenics we've done to dogs over the years. Life for some of us could be very cushy, but not so hot if you don't have the right appearance or personality.
Also, crapping all over things probably wouldn't endear us to our new robot overlords.
Edit: Damn you, popzeus. I knew I should have gone straight for the gag.
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Registered 18 years agoDrStrangelove wrote:
Uh, obviously not.
There need to be consumers, no?
I think an AI might keep humans because it's a degree more moral than humans. It might consider diversity of life worth preserving, presuming its resource use is constrained sufficiently. I mean, it might keep us at stone age level civilisation because that's more natural and more sustainable but beyond that it wouldn't really have a reason to exterminate us. -
It all boils down to what the AI is programmed for. If it's programmed to spread, it's going to eventually kill us. If it's programmed to find a solution for global warming, it's going to kill us too. If it's programmed to preserve life, it's going to kill us.
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DrStrangelove wrote:
But we're assuming that the AI has surpassed human intelligence, so I very much doubt they'll think like that. It can act on its own free will.
It all boils down to what the AI is programmed for. If it's programmed to spread, it's going to eventually kill us. If it's programmed to find a solution for global warming, it's going to kill us too. If it's programmed to preserve life, it's going to kill us.
Well, probably it's going to kill us whatever it's programmed for.
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