The most notable luminaries of our time are wrong to fear AI
Well that went well.<p>I am resisting the urge to respond to every single comment, but many of them are a version of the following:<p>The AI can have goals without desires, and those might cause us harm.<p>I agree with this, but I thought the last part was supposed to address this:<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;To be perfectly fair to Musk, there is another component to his argument. Musk argues, about the stand-in for humanity, that “he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out.”<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;On this view, the primary danger is not that the AI will take our resources, or compete with us, but that we don’t really know what may happen. This is a more general kind of concern that applies equally to, say, nuclear weaponry or genetic modification.<p>I wish I could pick one or two people on here, and just ask why that wasn&#x27;t an appropriate or convincing section of the post.