Ethical Guidelines for A Superintelligence
An essay by Ernest Davis, Author's site, dated 23 October 2014. date printed on the author's PDF; the journal version appeared in Artificial Intelligence in 2015.
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- Ethical Guidelines for A Superintelligence Author's site (cs.nyu.edu); a review of Bostrom's Superintelligence, published in Artificial Intelligence 220 (2015) · published 2014-10-23 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 3ebd30310c695a6d3fb6b6dc245c2ecfc07698a486a238b6c016014c0b442ce3). Author's PDF dated October 23, 2014. The cross-family check retrieved it again on 2026-10-31, with the same bytes.
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- Difficulty of alignmentDavis's review of Bostrom's Superintelligence, dated October 2014, disputes the view that giving a computer an ethical point of view is especially difficult, arguing that an AI able to understand human morality could be told to follow it.2014-10-23 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Difficulty of alignment: propositions page →
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