The problem of superintelligence: political, not technological

Totschnig, Wolfhart

doi:10.1007/s00146-017-0753-0

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“…This requires a conscious, harmonious, and humane approach on the part of business and government agencies. Totschnig considers the use of superintelligence in the information field to be not a technological problem, but a social one [18].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Views on Working with Information in a Semi-Digital Society: Its Possibility to Develop as Open Innovation Culture

Vinichenko

Rybakova

Chulanova

et al. 2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The transition from a semi-digital to digital society depends on the nature of work with information, and the speed and quality of digitalization largely depend on Generation Z. The purpose of the article is to identify and evaluate Gen Z’s views in Russia and Slovakia on the search and assessment of information in a semi-digital society. The empirical research methods are a questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, and a focus group. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, they were conducted remotely. The study reveals that the views of the Slovak and Russian Generation Z are similar in terms of searching and speeding up the acquisition of information and especially in the high assessment of their capabilities in information search and low confidence in advertising campaigns. The Slovak Gen Z is informationally mature and, at the same time, Internet-dependent. A difference in the perception of AI in Russian and Slovak Gen Z is identified. The results can be used to improve youth policies and provide information to society in the transition to fully digital life.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Views on Working with Information in a Semi-Digital Society: Its Possibility to Develop as Open Innovation Culture

Vinichenko

Rybakova

Chulanova

et al. 2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Criticizing Bostrom's account, however, Totschnig (2019, 916) emphasizes that the predominantly technological approach misreads the nature of control over a future superintelligence inasmuch as it should be considered as driven by the political dimension of self-interest. To avoid a warlike situation between a superintelligence and humans mutually considering each other as an existential threat, and achieving a peaceful coexistence, AI must not be antagonized by treating it as a tool or servant (Totschnig 2019). While Totschnig's realist implications are promising, in the end, the described relation between humans and AI becomes idealistically depoliticized and the seemingly political model fails to address the relationship between value transfer and enforceability.…”

Section: Value Transfer and Enforceabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The political AI

Gyulai¹,

Ujlaki²

2021

InfTars

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This article adopts a political theoretical perspective to address the problem of AI regulation. By disregarding the political problem of enforceability, it is argued that the applied ethics approach dominant in the discussions on AI regulation is incomplete. Applying realist political theory, the article demonstrates how prescriptive accounts of the development, use, and functioning of AI are necessarily political. First, the political nature of the problem is investigated by focusing on the use of AI in politics on the one hand and the political nature of the AI regulation problem on the other. Second, the article claims that by revisiting some of the oldest political and theoretical questions, the discourse on guidelines and regulation can be enriched through the adoption of AGI and superintelligence as tools for political theoretical inquiry.

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“…Cooperative futures where recognition of mutual vulnerability promotes harmony are an increasingly popular solution. Totschnig argues that the problem of superintelligence is solved not by technological means but through a political solution enabling peaceful co-existence in conditions of mutual vulnerability (Totschnig, 2017). Gunkel draws upon Levinas to portray robots as Others (Gunkel, 2018), while Coeckelbergh seeks to move beyond the Master/Slave dynamic to a relational future where humans and robots co-evolve through an acceptance of mutual vulnerability (Coeckelbergh, 2015(Coeckelbergh, , 2014(Coeckelbergh, , 2013(Coeckelbergh, , 2010.…”

Section: Singularity and The Roboapocalypsementioning

confidence: 99%

Sexbots: Drawing on Tibetan Buddhism and the Tantric tradition

Mackenzie

2020

FRL

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The plethora of technologies offering to match us up with our perfect partners, or to provide us with the ultimate sexual high, evidences our unfulfilled need for sexual and emotional companionship and fulfilment, together with the difficulties of embodying our fantasies in this arena. Sentient, self-aware sex robots [henceforth, sexbots] customised as companions to cater for our unique individual intimacy needs through deep learning capabilities will be designed to provide us with both. They will revolutionise our sexual, emotional and spiritual intimate and domestic lives. Implications of this transformation for hopes of a harmonious future where humans, post-Singularity intelligent robots, sexbots and all other sentient beings can flourish are explored. With the greatest respect, tentative suggestions for ways forward drawing on Tibetan Buddhism and the Tantric tradition are offered in order to foster a post-Singularity future where all sentient beings, including super-compassionate superintelligent robots, sexbots, humans and nonhuman animals, can flourish.

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The problem of superintelligence: political, not technological

Cited by 20 publications

References 16 publications

Views on Working with Information in a Semi-Digital Society: Its Possibility to Develop as Open Innovation Culture

Views on Working with Information in a Semi-Digital Society: Its Possibility to Develop as Open Innovation Culture

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Sexbots: Drawing on Tibetan Buddhism and the Tantric tradition

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