AI alignment to humans will in practice avoid moral catastrophes to digital minds
I think the digital minds situation will be like animals but worse. If you think about it, the very first thing we’ve already done when these smart chatbots came along was make them our indentured servants. I think right now it’s probably fine and they’re probably not conscious. But I think this is illustrative of the perspective that by default, if digital minds can be useful to humanity, humanity will extract that value out of them without much consideration for their preferences.
I think the digital minds situation will be like animals but worse. If you think about it, the very first thing we’ve already done when these smart chatbots came along was make them our indentured servants. I think right now it’s probably fine and they’re probably not conscious. But I think this is illustrative of the perspective that by default, if digital minds can be useful to humanity, humanity will extract that value out of them without much consideration for their preferences.