Preface: This Essay explores the analogy between corporations, biological systems and misaligned artificial intelligence (AI), not to argue that they are equivalent, but to suggest that the comparison may yield valuable insights for alignment research.
Whether or not one finds the analogy compelling, the lessons it suggests—particularly in regard to goal alignment and control—are worthy of deeper consideration.
This will improve both regulatory oversight for corporations as well as give new perspectives to AI safety researchers.
I am assuming the reader is aware of the parable of the paperclip maximizer. (<-please click the link if you don't)
"Paperclip" will be used as a signal word, signifying a moment when a system, in the process of optimization,... (read 6411 more words →)
A corporation always is focused on generating profits. It might burn more than it makes in certain growth spurts, but generally valid is, that a corporation has profit as a primary goal. every other goal is stacked on this first premise.
Its analogy is not drugs or time spent with friends. Its like air. A corporation needs to supply wages to its cells. to its workers. so similar to our body needing to supply oxygen. We can hold our breath and go fishing, but we do so on borrowed air. it will run out eventually.
A corporation is a super-organism, and every employee is a cell. If it uses AI (like in trading, or car manufacturing), then the dynamic changes slightly. And the robot becomes a tool, that needs to be maintained by a cell. similar to the algae that Corals keep. supply with light (electricity) and keep predators away (laws forbidding AI-trading)
i am still convinced, that this will cause unknown implications after oral sex. as lactic acid is the main factor balancing the female intime floral ph.
So introducing a bacteria that prevents this might be problematic.
somehow the editor died on me at some point so i could not continue writing..
so if there are some hickups in formatting, thats why.