What drives us humans to do both the great and the terrible things we do? Our desires and emotions, the things that trigger our pleasure, pain, and fear, are the results of natural selection. Evolution leads to a drive to survive and procreate, but what desire will a designed intelligent artifact have?
There is no reason to believe that hyper intelligent machines will have any desire to expand and dominate, or even to exist. Their "desires" will be to do what they were designed to do, be it good or bad.
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What drives us humans to do both the great and the terrible things we do? Our desires and emotions, the things that trigger our pleasure, pain, and fear, are the results of natural selection. Evolution leads to a drive to survive and procreate, but what desire will a designed intelligent artifact have?
There is no reason to believe that hyper intelligent machines will have any desire to expand and dominate, or even to exist. Their "desires" will be to do what they were designed to do, be it good or bad.