💭 Shanhan - The technological singularity §

Book link: GoodReads

💪 Strong AI §

Requirements §

• Optimization function must be playful
• AI should be creative and curious

Effects §

On work §

1. First wave:
   • 🥔 Weak AI takes over human work in certain areas
2. Second wave:
   • More work areas will be taken over by 💪 Strong AI and eventually 🌟 Super AI
   • → either: Humans will have more free time → focus on art, culture…
   • → or: Small elite will control all resources

On humans §

• Strong dependence on AI could reduce intellectual ability
• Brain upload?
• Synthetic persons??
• “AI neither hates nor loves you, but you are made out of atoms that it can use for something else”¹

Footnotes §

1. Shanahan 2015:214 ↩