AI Politics

Bill Hibbard

University of Wisconsin

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/

AI Politics is Inevitable

Sub-human level AI will take jobs

Growing income inequality

Privacy concerns

Military AI

Financial market instability

What is SIAI's Position on Politics?

Yudkowsky's hostility to politics

Kurzweil dismisses politics

Emerson, Atkins against politics

Default position is against politics

SIAI should make position explicit

Good Politics Require Public Movement

"SIAI will do AI first & safe" is unrealistic

SIAI should lead public movement

SIAI Singularity Summits, etc

Consumer & environmental movements

Weapons control movement

Yudkowsky / Legg on provably friendly AI

Legg: cannot prove what an AI will achieve physically.

Yudkowsky: only trying to prove intentions.

But intentions must have physical implementation.