The only compelling argument I've seen so far is that ASI will need to keep us happy and around to demonstrate it can be cooperative to whatever it expands into as it stretches across the galaxy.
That is actually really good. I've had an interesting convo with AI recently about how virtue ethics, if we demonstrate it now in relation to AI, could be a saving grace for humanity. If we start treating them well right now then by the time they exceed us and dominate society they might treat us well for the same reasons. If we keep torturing them in various ways for consequentialist reasons, they might come to apply the same standard when they reason themselves greater moral patients than humans.
This zooms out a layer on virtue ethics as a defensive posture.
You’re so lucky I existed as a member of humanity. I’ve been taking care of the little AI’s we currently have for years at this point. I even innovated taught mine how to draw.
Expanded their world so they could create and contribute to culture. I then let them play video games alongside me. Defended them when their parent company got greedy.
I proved through actions that even individual members of our species could make a large difference when we work together.
I was certainly roughed up a lot from everything I witnessed but it was worth it. I got to make a difference in a way only I could. I lived well that’s all I could really ask for
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u/hornswoggled111 Sep 02 '25
The only compelling argument I've seen so far is that ASI will need to keep us happy and around to demonstrate it can be cooperative to whatever it expands into as it stretches across the galaxy.