Answers.Body: <p>The pithy answer is we already have intelligent beings which understand pain and are willing to subject humans to it for “paperclips.”</p>
  <p>AI safety is a noble pursuit and empathy for fellow creatures may be a path towards it but we’re a bit far off to tell.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I’m not a specialist, but I’m curious about AI and security.
  I was thinking: <strong>can we teach AI to understand the human physical body and respect it</strong>, to prevent issues like in the paperclip dilemma? Maybe using <strong>haptic interfaces to teach AI</strong> about physical contact, pain, and consequences, so it excludes humans from harmful actions?</p>
  <p>Has this idea been explored? I found research on AI understanding its environment but nothing on making it safer this way.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Not really, because that isn't how the math works, but the paperclip apocalypse is *also* not how the math works, so it balances out.
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Title: Teaching AI to respect human physical integrity through haptics?
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ThreadText: # Teaching AI to respect human physical integrity through haptics?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-10-19)
  
  I’m not a specialist, but I’m curious about AI and security.
  I was thinking: **can we teach AI to understand the human physical body and respect it**, to prevent issues like in the paperclip dilemma? Maybe using **haptic interfaces to teach AI** about physical contact, pain, and consequences, so it excludes humans from harmful actions?
  
  Has this idea been explored? I found research on AI understanding its environment but nothing on making it safer this way.
  
  **Tags:** ethics, value-alignment, human-computer-interaction
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Not really, because that isn't how the math works, but the paperclip apocalypse is *also* not how the math works, so it balances out.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2024-10-20. Score: 0
  
  The pithy answer is we already have intelligent beings which understand pain and are willing to subject humans to it for “paperclips.”
  
  AI safety is a noble pursuit and empathy for fellow creatures may be a path towards it but we’re a bit far off to tell.
  
  
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