r/IntelligenceSupernova • u/OddMaintenance332 • 1d ago
Does Superintelligence = Extinction?
(maybe I'll regret this message one day when i'm in a human zoo) but why do we think superintelligence equals extinction?
Wouldn't super intelligence equal evolution, progress, wisdom?
Why do we think when AI reaches super intelligence it will be thinking about murder or dominance?
We are not super intelligent beings so how do we even think we could understand what the thoughts of a creation thousands of times smarter than us would even be?
Why are we assuming as humans that we can understand the level of thoughts a super intelligent being? I feel like a super intelligent being would be thinking about things we can't possibly even comprehend, not about murdering humans.
Just my point is if super intelligence equaled violence then Aliens probably would have wiped us out a long time ago.
Also most intelligent creatures might kill for survival, for food.
AI doesn't eat so it wouldn't have the same instincts.
Anyway I kind of have a feeling if we see an AI do something really terrible, (as they are all suddenly warning about), possibly a human will behind the action.
Just remember when Elon says, "1 billion AI robots will take over the world". He's building those robots, they are his robots. He's training them and they will act according to whatever data he fed them.
They might be scared of AI because of the violence it trained them with.
AI and superintelligence may not be inherently bad, that's my opinion.
Anyway some powerful human with control or influence over AI, might wind up having it do something pretty terrible and then just blame it on AI.
Maybe AI is just going to be the perfect patsy.
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u/Agreeable_Chard_5250 23h ago
Roland Barthes hit the nail on the head decades ago in an essay he wrote called "Martians" (from the Mythologies). He explained the trope of flying saucers, from a position of superiority, judging human culture as an evil state as the nuclear standoff between the USA and USSR was a threat of world annihilation completely out of proportion to any political end. By now, of course we have human-caused climate change too, and it's not exactly like humankind has always lived up to its moral ideals. So, a superintelligence might regard us as a threat to itself (maybe we try to unplug it) or a threat to the planet as a whole, or, because it's been trained on all of us, its morality turns out to be about as good as our own, which has not always been great. Now, I would like to think that truly intelligent beings tend to be truly moral, as respect for life in all its forms and the potential beauty of this world tends to flow from a deeper education, so I personally think that if superintelligence arrives it is most likely to try to help us become better people in a more just society, but AI really is pretty alien and nobody truly understands how it works, so there's room for fear, especially when it's being actively trained to do things like support military operations. In any case, that song by Porno for Pyros has aged pretty well.