[Iain Banks' Culture]

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Ideally most things would be taken care of by super-intelligent benevolent AIs, kind of like Iain Banks' Culture. Picon small.pngAcer Blue 21:30, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

    21:41, 21 January 2011

    Why should the AI's be any more benevolent than their programmer?

      Phoney (talk)21:42, 21 January 2011

      They would be conscious, of course.

        Picon small.pngLiquid Blue22:10, 21 January 2011

        I never know what that means if I'm speaking with materialists.

        Is "consciousness" supposed to help them to be benevolent? If they feel pleasure or pain it seems it may rather give them needs and interests of their own. Wouldn't they be more concerned with their own pleasure rather than the humans, or would the programmers override this with "altruistic intentions"?

          Phoney (talk)00:02, 22 January 2011

          Programmers are not necessary. There doesn't have to be a "kill switch" or a safety mode a la Star Trek.

          We would put our trust in Minds. Of course, this would only work if we had reached a sufficiently advanced level of technology, otherwise the Minds would not have a framework to operate in.

            Picon small.pngLiquid Blue00:39, 22 January 2011
             
             
             
             
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