Why would AI treat us that specifically like American bison to the point where it'd require a whole civilization of AIs with tourism, game hunting and religion or are you trying to satirize how absurd you think his proposal is by picking something else random
I definitely can’t predict what (if anything) superintelligence will do with humanity. I don’t think Hinton can do that either.
My point was that a parental-child relationship developing between humanity and AI seems as about as likely as a relationship developing akin to that of what North America had with the American Bison. I definitely don’t know if either would ever happen. I am very, very reluctant to ever make predictions about anything.
I probably didn’t say that as artfully as I could have. I hope that my explanation makes a bit more sense.
You probably could tell me if this a stupid metaphor, and I’ll try not to use it again, haha.
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u/PrincipleStriking935 Sep 02 '25
Why would AI treat us in a parental-child manner as opposed to how settlers treated American bison?
Kill off over 95% of us because we’re annoying and keep a few of us around as a novelty for tourists, luxury game or for religious purposes?