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Ask HN: Would the creator of Strong AI be the most powerful person in the world?

2 pointsAlexDragusin7 comments

Would the person who figures it out and creates a Strong AI, be considered the most powerful person on the planet? What do you think the responsibilities of this person would be in this situation? What would you do if you found yourself in this person's position?

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Why? There are plenty of people on the world who can harness the intelligence of thousands of BI systems (BI=biologically intelligent). Even if the AI is more energy efficient, I don’t think it would automatically make a difference.

Or are you thinking of something beyond “Strong AI”, where the AI is so much smarter than humans that it is smarter than the collective intelligence of thousands?

(As far as I know, no definition of “Strong AI” makes that AI by necessity smarter or faster-thinking than human AI. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc..., https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/strong-ai.asp, https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31622/strong-artificia...)

Of course, I am referring to Strong AI in the sense of True AI, that goes in the direction of your description, "AI is so much smarter than humans that it is smarter than the collective intelligence of thousands".

There's at least one book that explores this. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://g.co/kgs/xr1eHw

Have you watched the show Person of Interest? It explores the issue a little.

Yes, touches somewhat in concept rather than detail, as far as I remember, been a while so I might have missed some things.

Maybe, might also be the first casualty

Indeed, that's where the irony lies in, as control over it would likely be impossible, one could hope it develops in some sort of benevolent way but given the "survival" aspect there would be no incentive to do so.

I will be publishing an article at some point showing how such AI would be able to communicate in plain sight without us to be able to either detect nor prevent the said communication. (All this without encryption, without steganography)

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