Motivation, Morals, and Monsters

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Speculations about autonomous AI assume simplistic theories of motivation. They also mistakenly confuse those with ethical theories. Building AI systems on these ideas would produce monsters.
https://betterwithout.ai/AI-motivation

Coherent Extrapolated Volition

https://betterwithout.ai/AI-motivation#fn_Turchin:~:text=%E2%80%9C-,Coherent%20Extrapolated%20Volition,-%E2%80%9D%20at%20LessWrong%2C%20undated

A.I. Alignment Problem: "Human Values" Don't Actually Exist

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngqvnWGsvTEiTASih/ai-alignment-problem-human-values-don-t-actually-exist

"Can we survive technology?" by John Von Neumann

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf

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Motivation, Morals, and Monsters

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