let’s assume that when AIs take over the world in the future, they’ll kill us and take our place. Here’s a more fundamental objection: how exactly is that morally different from the fact that young humans already ‘take over’ the world from older people during every generation
I think this is a big moral difference: We do not actively kill the older humans so that we can take over. We care about older people, and societies that are rich enough spend some resources to keep older people alive longer.
The entirety of humanity being killed and replaced by the kind of AI that places so little moral value on us humans would be catastrophically bad, compared to things that are currently occurring.
I think this is a big moral difference: We do not actively kill the older humans so that we can take over. We care about older people, and societies that are rich enough spend some resources to keep older people alive longer.
The entirety of humanity being killed and replaced by the kind of AI that places so little moral value on us humans would be catastrophically bad, compared to things that are currently occurring.