The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents
A research paper by Nick Bostrom, Author's site, dated May 2012. The author's PDF gives the journal issue, Minds and Machines 22(2), May 2012.
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- Earliest located use of the name “orthogonality thesis” in Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI for R01 Orthogonality of intelligence and goals →
- Earliest located use of the name “convergent instrumental” in Arguments about catastrophic risk from advanced AI for R02 Instrumental convergence →
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- Orthogonality of intelligence and goalsBostrom's paper of 2012 states the orthogonality thesis: that intelligence and final goals are orthogonal axes along which possible agents can freely vary, so that more or less any level of intelligence could in principle be combined with more or less any final goal.2012-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Orthogonality of intelligence and goals: propositions page →
- Instrumental convergenceBostrom's paper of 2012 states the instrumental convergence thesis: that several instrumental values would raise the chances of an agent's goal being realised for a wide range of final goals and situations, and so are likely to be pursued by many intelligent agents.2012-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Instrumental convergence: propositions page →
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- Intelligence brings benevolence or no drive to dominateBostrom's paper of 2012 argues that it cannot be assumed that a superintelligence would share values such as benevolent concern for others, and that one with a goal such as calculating the decimals of pi would not necessarily limit its activities so as to spare human interests.2012-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Intelligence brings benevolence or no drive to dominate: propositions page →
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