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What a Swedish Series (Real Humans) Teaches Us About AI Safety

This post was written by Alice Dauphin. It is cross-posted from our Substack. Kindly read the description of this sequence to understand the context in which this was written. Picturing A Future with Humanoid Robots In the previous post, we introduced a number of risks associated with superintelligent systems. Among...

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What a Swedish Series (Real Humans) Teaches Us About AI Safety

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What a Swedish Series (Real Humans) Teaches Us About AI Safety

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This post was written by Alice Dauphin. It is cross-posted from our Substack. Kindly read the description of this sequence to understand the context in which this was written.

Picturing A Future with Humanoid Robots

In the previous post, we introduced a number of risks associated with superintelligent systems. Among them were the dangers posed by advanced autonomous agents that can create their own goals, possibly conflicting with human values or worse, directly threatening human existence. If it all sounded disembodied, I have the perfect show for you: Real Humans (Äkta människor), a Swedish series released in 2012, that depicts a not-so-distant future in which humanoid robots (hubots) are deployed at scale.^[1]

In the series, hubots... (read 1700 more words →)