I'm certain that everyone on here has probably heard of Roko's basilisk. I'm not going to explain it, and if you don't already know, you probably don't want to. But I had an idea. What if someone were to devote their life to creating a super-intelligent AI similar to Roko's basilisk, but it's one function is to prevent the creation of the basilisk? Tell me if this could possibly save people.
Essentially that could save the lives of people but would it ? If it's one function is to stop the creation of Roko's basilisk then at some point in time it could have the same goal as the basilisks itself, but this time instead of it being "Torture people who didn't help create it" but instead "Torture people who didn't help prevent it". So it creates a paradox in a way that to stop the basilisk it has to be the basilisk itself.
I'm certain that everyone on here has probably heard of Roko's basilisk. I'm not going to explain it, and if you don't already know, you probably don't want to. But I had an idea. What if someone were to devote their life to creating a super-intelligent AI similar to Roko's basilisk, but it's one function is to prevent the creation of the basilisk? Tell me if this could possibly save people.