The revelation of superintelligence
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The revelation of superintelligence Konrad Szocik1 · Bartłomiej Tkacz2 · Patryk Gulczyński3 Received: 4 January 2020 / Accepted: 21 January 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract The idea of superintelligence is a source of mainly philosophical and ethical considerations. Those considerations are rooted in the idea that an entity which is more intelligent than humans, may evolve in some point in the future. For obvious reasons, the superintelligence is considered as a kind of existential threat for humanity. In this essay, we discuss two ideas. One of them is the putative nature of future superintelligence which does not necessary need to be harmful for humanity. Our key idea states that the superintelligence does not need to assess its own survival as the highest value. As a kind of intelligence that is not biological, it is not clear what kind of attitude the superintelligent entity may evolve towards living organisms. Our second idea refers to the possible revelation of superintelligence. We assume that the self-revelation of such entity cannot be random. The metaphor of God as a superintelligence is introduced here as a helpful conceptual tool. Keywords Superintelligence · Existential threat · Future studies · Thought experiment · revelation · Embodied mind · Ethics
1 Introduction The idea of superintelligence should be, first of all, considered as a kind of the philosophical thought experiment which may be used as a good platform to study our moral intuitions or to create the hypothetical scenarios of the future human development. However, the probability that something like the superintelligence may ever happen, is appreciated by philosophers and futurists but often questioned by IT scholars. The idea that the intelligence as high as human intelligence or even higher may be realized beyond the human brain and body is philosophically
appealing, ethically—and also theologically—challenging but technically almost implausible (Floridi 2016). Here, we want to discuss the challenge of the possible revelation of superintelligence in relation to its nature. When we understand the nature of superintelligence, we should find that the moment of its revelation is not a trivial issue. The challenge lies in the fact that—if the superintelligence is something more intelligent than we are—it should not be interpreted and understood in the anthropomorphic way. In some sense, humans are not prepared intellectually to understand and to predict decisions and behaviours of an entity which is more intelligent than them.
* Konrad Szocik [email protected]
2 The nature of superintelligence
Bartłomiej Tkacz [email protected]
There are good reasons to assume that the superintelligence is a kind of entity which will exceed the boundaries typical for the human species. This is a kind of an intellectual challenge for humans, to think about the virtual mental capabilities of superintelligence in terms different than anthropomorphic. First, let us assume that the superintelligence is a kind of intelligence which i
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