@emilymbender The one good thing that came out of the paperclip thing was @cstross using it to show that we already have that type of maximizer - corporations, whih he said are "old, slow AIs."
/11 2. "[I]nstead of alarming the public w/ ambiguous projections about the future...we should focus less on what we should worry about, & more on what we should do.
/5 History suggests "that the greatest risks come not from technology itself, but from the people who control the technology using it to accumulate power and wealth. The AI industry leaders who have signed this statement are precisely the people best positioned to do just that."