Benevolent Artificial Intelligence

A Benevolent Artificial Intelligence is an AI that is a Benevolent Agent.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Benevolent sub-AGI to being a Benevolent AGI to being a Benevolent SuperAI.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence.
• See: AGI, Technological Utopianism.

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References

2014

• (Brooks, 2014) ⇒ Rodney Brooks. (2014). “Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat.” In: Rethinking Robotics, November 10, 2014.
  • QUOTE: … Let’s get on with inventing better and smarter AI.

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• From ‘Frankenstein’ to Monster.com: Utopia, Dystopia and Technology. http://www.academia.edu/1659751/From_Frankenstein_to_Monster.com_Dystopia_Utopia_and_Technology
  • The Scientist
    • The scientist is a loner.
    • He sacrifices his personal life for the experiment or his quest.
    • He makes himself responsible for the consequences of his creation by fighting or killing the machine.
    • He believes that his experiment is for good and is going to change the world
  • The Machine
    • Artificially created beings
    • Physically superior to their creators
    • Designed to serve, to be “tools,” to fulfill specific purposes or tasks.
    • They are anthropomorphized and they are hard to differentiate from humans
    • They evolve
    • They develop their own consciousness.

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