The intelligence explosion revisited
Karim Jebari and Joakim Lundborg
Outline
- The solution: Friendly AI
- Why Friendly AI is a distraction
The AI X-risk claim
- AI can be created
- Recursive improvement: AI --> ASI
- ASI cannot be controlled
- We need Friendly AI
Human intelligence is a narrow range
Human intelligence is static
Distinction (1)
Intelligence = the ability to do stuff with your brain
Techne = The ability to do stuff
Human techne is not static
... and it is not a narrow range
What matters is relative super intelligence
(or "super techne")
Conclusions
- Human techne can improve very quickly
- This makes ASI only plausible under the assumption of and intelligence explosion
- If the human range is not narrow, then such an explosion is less likely
Distinction (2)
Agency = ability of intentional action
= behavior caused by belief/desire
unorthodox definitions
1. Belief: a representation of the world
2. Desire: a set of instructions to act
Friendly AI makes only sense if AI has wide agency
Bacteria are not "friendly"!
Minimal vs. wide agency
Minimal: "desires" are very specific
Wide: desires are non-specific
Wide agency
Allows humans to dynamically generate instrumental goals in most contexts.
AI is not (always) stupid, its utility function is just too narrow
A wide utility function
allows generation of new instrumental desires under a wide set of contexts
Agency is different from techne
A narrow agent cannot in its utility function contain the desire to become a wider agent, because that would require that the agent has the desire it wishes to attain.
Conclusions
Creating agent AI requires a concerted effort
Minimal agent AI/tool AI is the greater risk
Ergo: we should focus effort at those risks
Thank you!
Karim Jebari
jebarikarim@gmail.com
politiskfilosofi.com
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