Paperclip Maximizer Ending Humanity??

Jun 20 (edited) in Research & Science Fair

The world is a weird place. Like, how would a paperclip factory lead to the end of the world? Sounds nuts but the implications are scarier than you think.

Imagine 2029. We just achieved AGI – artificial intelligence so advanced it blows our minds. We want to cure diseases, solve the energy crisis, maybe even interstellar travel, you name it and it can do it for us. But for its first task, we ask the AGI to maximize paperclip production as efficiently as possible. Sounds harmless, right? Wrong. If we don’t set things up just right that AGI might just decide humans are in the way of its goal. We take up space, we consume resources – and no one’s going to sacrifice humanity for more paperclips. But a machine focused solely on optimization? Who knows what it might do? The point that Im trying to make is that paperclips should be a zero risk task. But we don’t know how to program human values into a machine that can think for itself. Think about it...

What do you guys think? Share your thoughts in the comment below and do you have an idea of preventing this? (don't just say to stop AI development, just might be a solution but we want to improve our lives. A classic example is how when the calculator was first invented, people said that mathematicians were done, but we still have them here; it just made our lives easier, I think the same goes for AI if we use it in the right way)

I want to know your guy's perspectives on this.

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