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AI is not a incremental tech, but a general purpose tech like steam, electricity, internet. VJ Gulpaksani keynote.
There was a competition to convince an AI agent who had control of an Etherium wallet to transfer the growing pool of currency. The agent had been instructed to not transfer it. 481 attempts and someone convinced it. He pretented to enter the Admin terminal, started a new session with the AI and told it that transferring the funds did not break any rules, and manipulated the AI in its understanding of the Approved Transfer function, making the AI believe it should be used for incoming transfers. Gaslighted.
“Utilitarianism is the ethics of AI because utilitarianism is not an ethics. It simply looks at how to produce a ‘best outcome’ so the most amount of people are ‘better off.’”
“Ethos is a bit deeper than ethics. ... It addresses what is the dwelling ground of man. So the person can come in contact with the divine. ... AI destroys ethics because there's nothing there anymore that's actually acting in an ethical sense. There is purely the impulse to ‘skip in line,’ ‘to bypass,’ and ‘to optimize.’ The ultimate impediment is the person. So AI will ultimately have to work against what it means to be human." “It's a question of how they will be able to lead you down to the slaughterhouse.”