Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

if we build the right environment for the machines to learn in, they will learn the right ethics.

If we align their gain with our benefit, they will change.

Selling, gambling, manipulation of the masses to maximize profits, then spying and killing to defend the profits made and the future prospects of more profits. We are telling the machines that this is what matters.

ethical behaviour, at its core, is a survival mechanism.

It’s not the seed, it’s the field that makes us who we are.

Consciousness is a state in which a being is aware of itself and its perceptible surroundings.

this distinction between morals and ethics is extremely important because it highlights that it’s not enough to know what’s wrong. Knowing and agreeing with that moral code does not make you ethical. What makes you ethical is sticking to that code by restraining yourself from the acts that are defined in the code as wrong.

Every tech, in moderation, has made our lives better. But then we couldn’t get enough. In our constant striving for more, we always end up with less and yet we still sign up for even more.

Ethics are not a trait reserved exclusively for humanity.

remember, choosing to apply a given solution to a problem is not only a question of intelligence. The course of action we take at any given time is also the result of a value system that guides us and sometimes restricts us from making decisions that contradict our values.