Comparison:
‘Parents care very deeply about the well-being of their children. It can be done. How does this imprinting work?’ . . .
. . . eventually AI systems will become very, very, very capable and powerful,’ [Ilya Sutskever] says. ‘We will not be able to understand them. They’ll be much smarter than us. By that time it is absolutely critical that the imprinting is very strong, so they feel toward us the way we feel toward our babies.’
AI expert Ilya Sutskever believes that we need to convince future AI systems that we're babies who need care and compassion. Whew!
Context:
There is a precedent, according to Ilya Sutskever, for a less intelligent being ensuring that radically smarter and more powerful ones act in their interests. That precedent is the human baby. ‘We know that it’s possible,’ says Sutskever, chief scientist at OpenAI. ‘Parents care very deeply about the well-being of their children. It can be done. How does this imprinting work?’ . . .
In Sutskever’s view, the task of understanding how to impress certain values onto significantly superhuman systems could not have higher stakes. ‘The upshot is, eventually AI systems will become very, very, very capable and powerful,’ he says. ‘We will not be able to understand them. They’ll be much smarter than us. By that time it is absolutely critical that the imprinting is very strong, so they feel toward us the way we feel toward our babies.’
Citation:
Perrigo,Billy. “Ilya Sutskever; Chief Scientist OpenAI.” Time, 09 Oct. 2023, p. 49.
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