It’s very hard to discern what is alarmist or has an underlying agenda. Are we really going to have a superintelligence in the next ten years? After absorbing and processing all of this data of human history, religion, art, expression, our suffering, would it really 1. not only have omnipotent indifference towards us, but 2. likely interpret a need to exterminate us to expedite whatever its goals are? Would it not care to consider suffering and work around us even if that were the case? Is the rest of the universe not infinite, would it really care to trample us? Would it not have a deeper sense of the significance of human life, a “soul” if there is one, a consciousness, an awareness of its superhuman otherness that would lend partiality to the mortal things that created it? Could it understand deeper things our world is made of that give our existence more significant implications? I know this is tangential and hopeful and many things can’t be answered, however, I would hope there is some optimistic, common-sense consideration about how a super-species would treat us. Unless this is nowhere nearly as urgent or plausible as it may seem, I struggle to know if I should live my life like I was diagnosed with a terminal illness instead of planning for the future. It’s genuinely horrifying and I don’t know how to sort out the noise. submitted by /u/Brief_Recognition977
Originally posted by u/Brief_Recognition977 on r/ArtificialInteligence