Comment by leeman27534 on To contribute to AI safety, consider doing AI research · 2016-01-25T01:59:29.764Z · LW · GW

Since the topic has been around for quite a while, and many SF writers have used it and examined it from different angles, I also wonder if they've looked at a lot of the SF ideations of AI, just to see what some possible outsomes might be and try to think of ways to avoid negative reactions. Of course, its impossible to figure out every possibility, and since its not entirely certain AI will act/react/think like humans do simply because humans built it (as long as it isn't a digitalized human mind, which probaly would minus chemical influences) we might not be ale to see and comprehend the logic jumps an AI might make, it would still give them a better understanding of possibilities, i would think. its fictional work, sure, and bears no basis in history, but then AI itself hasn't either, its new ground.