Freedom, AI and God: Why being dominated by a friendly super-AI might not be so bad

Morgan Luck

doi:10.1007/s00146-024-01863-w

Freedom, AI and God: Why being dominated by a friendly super-AI might not be so bad

Morgan Luck

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One response to the existential threat posed by a super-intelligent AI is to design it to be friendly to us. Some have argued that even if this were possible, the resulting AI would treat us as we do our pets. Sparrow (AI & Soc. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01698-x, 2023) argues that this would be a bad outcome, for such an AI would dominate us—resulting in our freedom being diminished (Pettit in Just freedom: A moral compass for a complex world. WW Norton & Company, 2014). In this paper, I consider whether this would be such a bad outcome.

Original language	English
Number of pages	8
Journal	AI and Society
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01863-w
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 23 Feb 2024

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