Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris

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HOW is irrelevant to IF it's going to happen because IF you accept his 3 premises you already accept THAT it is going to happen. All this speculation of how it's going to happen in practice is the same mistake people make when they say that there can't be objective answers to morality in principle just because we may not be able to find any in practice.

No, it is relevant if one is talking about technology. A yet to developed AI is still a piece of technology. However advanced it needs hard- and software and energy to function. Three components we provide it with, based on our technological knowledge.

The premise is entirely void if it doesn't adress the basics and how these basics could be possibly overcome by a piece of intelligent design. A piece of intelligent design using our technology with all it's limitations. And the year this technology is invented is entirely irrelevant to the question, since going by our own standards, it will be old hat in another year or two.