Ask HN: Do you think AGI will destroy all of humanity?

2 points by SympleScience 3y ago ↗ HN

A few people may have already watched this video with Eliezer Yudkowsky discussing how we're on the cusp of complete destruction at the hands of misaligned AGI and how we may have 10 - 15 years left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4

What are your thoughts on this?

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SympleScience 3y ago ↗

User Gravityloss summarised the video pretty well: We have no idea how to ensure alignment of a super AI. People are spending a lot of money to create a super AI. Super AI is likely to destroy humans as a byproduct of its actions, whatever it will decide to do. Happening to create a super AI that is also a humanity aligned super AI is like creating software randomly and it becoming information secure by accident, very unlikely.

Investors and researchers are mocking people warning of the large scale dangers of AI.

freakynit 3y ago ↗

Nothing new here. Corpo greed > general welfare. Case in point: environment disaster.

begemotz 3y ago ↗

Destroy humanity:

AGI? no

Humans + AGI? maybe

Humans? definitely