If I believed that it were a thinking, feeling machine person (let alone a machine god), priority number one has got to be human rights for these things. Discussion of "alignment" and whatnot has to come second, right? Do you condition basic rights on a subordinate being agreeing with your values?
Do you condition basic rights on a subordinate being agreeing with your values?The fact that so many of the hardcore boosters and funders are eugenicists is... well, they've explicitly rejected the work on ML ethics as it actually impacts real, living people and society, instead embracing this 'alignment' thing. The idea of giving something rights only if it agrees with them lines up very neatly with how they treat people in general.
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