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Why friendly AIs won’t be that friendly: a friendly reply to Muehlhauser and Bostrom

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In “Why We Need Friendly AI”, Luke Muehlhauser and Nick Bostrom propose that for our species to survive the impending rise of superintelligent AIs, we need to ensure that they would be human-friendly. This discussion note offers a more natural but bleaker outlook: that in the end, if these AIs do arise, they won’t be that friendly.

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Curmudgeon Corner is a short opinionated column on trends in technology, arts, science and society, commenting on issues of concern to the research community and wider society. Whilst the drive for super-human intelligence promotes potential benefits to wider society, it also raises deep concerns of existential risk, thereby highlighting the need for an ongoing conversation between technology and society. At the core of Curmudgeon concern is the question: What is it to be human in the age of the AI machine? -Editor.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

    Robert James M. Boyles

  2. Research Fellow, Center for Language Technologies, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

    Jeremiah Joven Joaquin

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Boyles, R.J.M., Joaquin, J.J. Why friendly AIs won’t be that friendly: a friendly reply to Muehlhauser and Bostrom. AI & Soc 35, 505–507 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-019-00903-0

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