Paperclip maximizer
Revision as of 23:14, 22 February 2020 by Issa (talk | contribs) (Created page with "my understanding is that the paperclip maximizer example was intended to illustrate the following two concepts: * orthogonality thesis: intelligence/capability and values...")
my understanding is that the paperclip maximizer example was intended to illustrate the following two concepts:
- orthogonality thesis: intelligence/capability and values can vary orthogonally; a superintelligent AI need not realize that "making paperclips is stupid" and decide to maximize happiness instead
- instrumental convergence: even if an AI isn't deliberately trying to hurt us (as a terminal value), it will still probably kill us because it is instrumentally valuable to acquire resources, disarm other agents that could interfere, etc.
However, the paperclip maximizer is sometimes also mentioned when talking about more realistic AI designs, and how a "random" goal that an unaligned AI would have is as valuable as paperclipping.
