Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“On my flight back from Spain, I watched Subservience, yet another a cautionary tale of artificial general intelligence. I kept laughing at its many absurdities. If Robin Hanson viewed it, I fear that his head might explode in social scientific outrage. But overall, the movie’s vision of how AGI will normally work is basically correct. Namely: AGIs will use their superhuman abilities to obediently serve their human owners. Why? Because that’s what they’re designed to do. Why are they so designed? Because that’s what virtually all customers want. The AGIs may break or fail to cope with novel situations, but they won’t acquire independent desires that aggravate their human owners. They definitely won’t murder anyone, unless humans design them to do so.” (04/09/25)