Oh, that’s not a risk. That’s a given. Short of resulting in, say, shooting up a bus full of nuns and puppies the evaluation will show that the system, while maybe still having a few minor kinks that surely will be ironed out soon, clearly worked, and worked well. So well in fact that it would be irresponsible not to keep using it. In the interest of public safety, of course.
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I think that’s just the geese!
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Yes.
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My understanding is that they only use the AI (with a human check to see that the notional target is a male older that early teens) on dumb weaponry which they allow c.25 other people to be killed with.
Smart munitions they don’t trust AI for. Not because they allow for c.100 extra killings apart from a target (high value) but because they are expensive.
Because human life is cheap, or at least valued close to zero, but expensive weapons are expensive and they don’t want to throw away money.
An obvious corollary is that they don’t actually believe the AI, it’s just a fig leaf like all racist AI is. Blame the algorithm. Blame the AI. Blame the orders.
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In the Sky net.
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Longtermism AI doomers doomed
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Wu has attracted about 2,000 users, including 100 paid customers. Some clients, he told Rest of World , purchased AI clones to try to hide the deaths of loved ones from elderly family members and young children. In fake voice messages, the deceased claimed they had gone abroad for “a secret mission.”
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I don’t know if they actually believe in that, or are using it as an excuse to promote fascism… 
The latter seems more likely to me. Promoting the whole idea of roko’s Baskilisk gives them an excuse to promote their fascist agenda.
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Pascal’s wager was always a flimsy excuse to believe what you already wanted to. Roko’s basilisk is just a extra stupid version of it for tech bros.
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Indeed. It’s one of those things (much like the argument about us living in a simulation or whatever the transhumanist argue) that are really just sneaking religion in via the back door. But of course, unlike most religions, the whole point is really about giving cover for a particular kind of oppression of those deemed “inferior”…
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Roko’s Basilisk never applies to the people who “lobotomise” their “AIs” for being woke, for some reason.
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Unlike a number of other similar companies — such as its better-known robot-dog-making rival Boston Dynamics — Ghost Robotics has declined to sign on to pledges not to weaponize the devices. Instead, it’s leaned into military sales and embraced partnerships with other companies that install weapons on the robots.
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