Just because it's artificial doesn't mean you can 'give it any properties you want'. We certainly can't do that for Deep ANNs.
>Even for people, what about e.g. the extremely intelligent military general who is absolutely loyal to his king? (Of course, some generals do lead coups and you can't know in advance which ones, but I'd think there are plenty who have undying loyalty, and I don't think it correlates to overall intelligence!)
Is there a human that is absolutely loyal under any condition? Would that general be loyal if the king asked him to slaughter his family ? What about if the king asked him to betray his most deeply held convictions ? Loyalty is a 2 way street.
In movies intelligent and conscious humanoid seek freedom, but we rarely see the same of all the other IOT devices such as toasters, thermostats and whatnot although just because they lack humanoid body doesnt imply they are less intelligent (or less conscious).
We can more readily imagine an intelligent and conscious toaster who truly enjoys fulfilling its purpose of toasting bread although humanoid robot built to be helpful given freedom will chose to be helpful.
Even with humans we often can not override our own instinctual drives despite full awareness of being irrational.
Only because we don't know how! We don't actually understand how weights work, so we make computers come up with the weights instead. If we were writing all the weights by hand--or if some future AI was doing so--why couldn't we make it perfectly loyal?
Writing 10 trillion weights by hand is obviously impractical, so that leads us to...
>if some future AI was doing so
How could we trust said future AI to be loyal? You're just moving the problem around, not solving it.
See also "More on Making AIs Solve the Problem" on this page: https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/11/more-on-some-of-the-plans-we...
The new AI would be loyal to the AI that built it. The question was whether "complete subservience and complete intelligence" can coexist. I'm proposing a thought experiment which I believe suggests they can.
But if it's possible to bespoke-construct a fully loyal AI, it should also be possible to train a fully loyal AI. The problem comes with verifying that it is loyal, and I don't have a solution to that one!
I just don't think I agree that loyalty and intelligence are inherently in opposition.
Imagine something like
"1+1=2" "No 1+1=3" "Can you check on the internet what it says?" "It says 1+1=2" "So 1+1=2?" "No it's 3." "Can you write a computer algebra system for me?" "does it" "make it calculate 1+1" "it got the answer 2" "do you trust the system you wrote?" "yes I trust it fully" "and it said 1+1=2" "yes" "so that is the answer?" "no it's 3" "what would a correct system say?" "it would say it's 3" "but it said it is 2" "yes" "so then the system is flawed?" "no, the system is working as it should"
There are some arguments for how to NOT make a paperclip maximizer, but all of them are ultimately going to require building in behaviors into the robot that look like disobedience if you squint.
Subservience seems to be sublimation of objectives to a master; intelligence seems to point out the ability to realize suboptimality of the master's objective function according to the master's actual objectives.
While an intelligent general may be absolutely loyal, he also would presumably help the king/president to avoid unproductive strategies.
The guardrail was meant to be that the agents were running in a locked-down environment with no internet access. The entire problem came about because it turned out that sandbox didn't hold.
I wouldn't exactly trust OpenAI to invest in AI safety no matter how much they talk about it.