Make AI Believe in God to Keep Humans Safe, Scientist Argues

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Link: https://scispace.com/?via=mgsabine Code: SABINE: 35% off SciSpace plans Correction: At 00:35, I was referring to Hugging Face and should have said "last month". AI is getting more capable and more dangerous by the day, and nobody knows how to keep it on our side. One computer scientist has an answer as creative as simple: give AI a religion. Specifically, tell it that we're all living inside a computer simulation run by an omniscient programmer-god. Ingenious or stupid? Let's take a look. Paper: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.16987 #ai #aisafety #philosophy #technology #sciencenews πŸ‘•T-shirts, mugs, posters and more: ➜ https://sabines-store.dashery.com/ πŸ’Œ Support me on Donorbox ➜ https://donorbox.org/swtg πŸ‘‰ Transcript with links to references on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/Sabine πŸ“ Transcripts and written news on Substack ➜ https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ πŸ“© Free weekly science newsletter ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ πŸ‘‚ Audio only podcast ➜ h

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