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  • chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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    2 months ago

    You mean like this?

    Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

    Yeah… peak comedy right there. It’s called instrumental convergence, if you want to be precise.