Google CEO: AI is a bigger deal than fire or electricity

You design a system that can take in a store of energy of some sort and converts it into energy through some kind of process. You might call the energy source, say, food and the process of converting into energy could be called nutrition.

That's how you'd do it if you lost electricity I guess. Create a generator that takes not-electricity and turns it into electricity.

If you really have to go without electricity, you could make it run on glucose. We have systems like that running around, just not artificial.

And since we know neurons and brains work using electric pulses, you could say that turning glucose into electricity is also a solved problem.

Of course you could also say that without electricity (as in doesn't exist as a thing) you can't have brains so you'd never be able to come up with AI in the first place.

Altho I wonder if a brain would evolve that runs on something other than electricity if electricity didn't exist as a physical phenomena. That would be interesting.

They just don't want to let you.

I'd imagine the answer is something along the lines of the AI needing to incur a strong penalty when it falsely accuses or falsely casts suspicion, or misses a crime it would've found without that trait distracting it, etc. But the point IMO is that the only way to stop this problem is to understand it without being afraid of talking about it. You talk of the AI as being stupid for this problem -- but the stupidity lies in the axioms we're feeding it, and that only gets fixed by finding out where WE are going wrong in a rigorous and scientific way.