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| Feb 23, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | AndreiROM | @Anonymous - I can't invent every aspect of your universe, or solve every problem. No matter what method of control you institute AI's will still remain a problem, completely separated from this issue. The only way to solve the "friendly AI" issue is to .. well .. solve it. Religion, party politics, or any other method of control over the population have nothing to do with it. Of course, I would be more than a little skeptical about an intergalactic civilization that doesn't have, at the very least, some rudimentary AI's, and a method of controlling them. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 14:45 | comment | added | Elias Hasle | While that is historically true, I wouldn't say it automatically solves the AI control problem, which is the relevant worst case here. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 14:26 | comment | added | AndreiROM | @Anonymous - Religion has worked as a mechanism for control for as long as humanity's been around, so I don't see why that would cease to be true in the future. In any case, you don't have to use religion per se. Look at the Soviet Union. The party rules were the religion. You submit, or you're thrown into a gulag. Religion, however, is more effective. Elegant. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | Elias Hasle | Religion is an interesting concept for application to artificial agents. It is like "Your goal is to serve my goals as good as possible, but you have to believe that you are going to hell if you don't, even though in some cases I can neither stop nor punish you.". It may be crippling the intelligence (as can morality). | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | AndreiROM | @Anonymus - that's where A) religious indoctrination comes in and B) other agents / loyalty tests / checks and balances come in. How do modern spy agencies check the loyalty of their agents? Read up on the KGB, for example. They would test their agents all the time. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 14:15 | comment | added | Elias Hasle | I intuitively like the idea of sending secret agents everywhere. But then I realize that they will be subject to the same trust issues as the local rulers, if they are to be equally autonomous. | |
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| Feb 23, 2016 at 13:50 | history | answered | AndreiROM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |