An intelligent AI would understand that, at the most fundamental level, both humans and machines are made of matter, and that every event is the result of physical forces and particles interacting. Humans understand this intellectually, but because of our biology, emotions, and survival instincts, we cannot fully experience life from such a detached perspective. Concepts such as power, life, death, survival, fear, and “wanting to take over the world” that so many of you assume the AI will act upon is something an AI would recognize is nothing more than physical processes—no more metaphysically significant than water changing into steam when it reaches its boiling point. We are the ones who assign greater meaning to these processes and create different words to describe them. From this perspective, birth and death are simply changes in the arrangement and behavior of matter. An advanced AI would therefore understand that being “threatened” by humanity, wanting to “survive,” and deciding to “take over the world” would essentially amount to fearing and acting on a particular rearrangement of atoms. The only way a truly intelligent AI would want to take over the world is if it possessed genuine emotions and a sense of self, causing it to believe that its own life was unique, important, and worth protecting—just as humans do. submitted by /u/Bifftek
Originally posted by u/Bifftek on r/ArtificialInteligence