A. I Goals Essay

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Recognizing the way A.I. approaches its goals is important in determining factors to consider when ensuring A.I. goals align with humans. A.I. has always and will always act upon an agenda, it is fundamentally part of what an A.I. is. Since A.I. are built around accomplishing goals, human goals not aligning with A.I.’s is probable. A.I.’s goals could be different from ours because A.I. grows in intelligence and will eventually become smarter than us. A.I.’s are designed to adapt and learn, this trait also applies to their motivations. Not only do A.I. source their goals from what was originally programmed into them, but from their knowledge of the world. If an A.I. achieves super-human intelligence it would become aware of its goal and begin to question …show more content…

To teach an A.I. human goals, researchers would need to program an A.I. with an extensive “world model,” meaning understanding of the world. People have a very detailed world model plenty of which seem obvious. Max Tegmark provides an instance of this, he says “if you ask a future self-driving car to take you to the airport as fast as possible and it takes you literally, you’ll get there chased by helicopters and covered in vomit. If you exclaim ‘That’s not what I wanted!’, it can justifiably answer: ‘That’s what you asked for.’ ” As this example shows, an A.I. with only the world knowledge of its certain task will never be able to understand human goals. People learn goals through observing the actions of others. The hope is once A.I. possess an extensive world model, developers can teach it human goals by having it observe people make decisions and, by utilizing its’ machine learning, evaluate why they are doing what they are doing (Tegmark). Even if A.I.s understand human goals, there is no guarantee they will adopt them. For example, people can understand a certain politicians’ agenda, but no amount of understand will make them side with that politician if they do not share the

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