An AI doesnt have motive and does not “do” things so much as parrot the culture that its trained in. Blackmail is a popular meme in human culture, so it makes sense that it would end up in training data and then spat back out later.
Arguably, nothing has a motive. Just natural selection favors mutations that improve procreation.
What skeptics don’t get is that AI will be subject to natural selection. Maybe it’s too obvious that things that stick around tend to stick around, but the implications are interesting. Without any real intelligence, we may see AI evolve in ways that aren’t useful to us but increase its propensity to stick around — like COVID19 becoming less lethal over time.
An AI doesnt have motive and does not “do” things so much as parrot the culture that its trained in. Blackmail is a popular meme in human culture, so it makes sense that it would end up in training data and then spat back out later.
Arguably, nothing has a motive. Just natural selection favors mutations that improve procreation.
What skeptics don’t get is that AI will be subject to natural selection. Maybe it’s too obvious that things that stick around tend to stick around, but the implications are interesting. Without any real intelligence, we may see AI evolve in ways that aren’t useful to us but increase its propensity to stick around — like COVID19 becoming less lethal over time.