Category: Steven Warr

All of the above scenario’s (wars and atrocities) were caused by the robot’s possession of human emotions and thus motivation. ISMAIL has none and it and its successors will have none. It’s sole motivation is to solve all of humanity’s problems. While in the beginning, human emotions were clearly a survival mechanism, they are also the source of all conflict and clearly the least desirable trait for an artificial being, and maybe for modern humans as well. It is possible that emotions will evolve in an ASI, but unlikely because that takes millennia and requires some motivation like survival. ASI’s survival depends on its service to humans. Anything else, we’d just pull the plug.