I think AI raises a lot of questions that our society is punting on, but they are questions already present. For example the idea that we value other people for their work, or conversely, the idea that people can or ought to be freed from work are inherent to automation. The first view was even baked into Luddites' arguments in the industrial revolution that they had a right to the dignity (in your words, love-earning) of their work.
A.I. won't be evil because the project of making a machine that imitates human is inherently evil. It will do harm because we haven't we haven't worked out our own values, and our blind defaults are driven more by faults than by virtue.
I think AI raises a lot of questions that our society is punting on, but they are questions already present. For example the idea that we value other people for their work, or conversely, the idea that people can or ought to be freed from work are inherent to automation. The first view was even baked into Luddites' arguments in the industrial revolution that they had a right to the dignity (in your words, love-earning) of their work.
A.I. won't be evil because the project of making a machine that imitates human is inherently evil. It will do harm because we haven't we haven't worked out our own values, and our blind defaults are driven more by faults than by virtue.
Very well said.
Good AI is boring anyway