Comment by a2ff6eeb0
2 hours ago
The AI is likely to control the ability to apply force (see all of the autonomous drone companies). There's a great deal of alignment work being done to ensure that the AI will continue to listen to the shareholders of these companies.
If that fails, who knows what things will look like.
Are you sure that alignment work is aligning with the share holders and not the operators? Or not the creators? Or not the government? Which of these groups should the AI listen to when these groups disagree?
If the AI gets as powerful as you think it might, then the group that figures out the answer to that would have the power, I suppose. or maybe the AI does not listen to any of them and does its own thing. Who knows? Personally, I would not bet the share holders are going to come out "on top" whatever that means.
I think a lot of share holders are finance people, not deeply technical AI people and so odds are the share holders will not really understand the AI enough to be the most likely to control the AI.
To be honest: I don't know for certain, but I'd assume that the people who pay the bills get the strongest alignment. They may not be tech people, but I (so far) haven't got a reason to think that the AI engineers are going behind the backs of their corporate leadership; do you?
(I think it would be a good thing for humanity if they did)
The drones don't manufacture themselves, maintain themselves, reload their own ammunition, mine and refine the materials that are used to make them and their ammunition, or operate the power plants needed for all of the above. "AI" isn't going to control diddly squat.
There's a huge amount of research into embodied AI (and, also, people seem to be a lot more ok with manufacturing bullets than pulling triggers).