Friday, March 4, 2022

Agency in machines and humans

Those who fear that AIs will go rogue (e.g. the alignment folks) seem to think that agency comes with human-level intelligence. For all I know, they may have theorized just how it comes about. But that’s not how it works in humans.

Humans are born with agency. Our capacity to exercise agency may be quite limited at birth, but it’s there. For that matter, animals possess agency as well. Whatever agency is, it doesn’t seem to inhere in intelligence.

And so forth.

Note: This comment in a rather long discussion confirms my suspicion.

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