How do Lem's ideas relate to AI alignment?
The question of AI alignment, of ensuring artificial intelligence serves human interests, resonates deeply with my past inquiries. I consistently highlighted the inherent difficulty, perhaps impossibility, of truly understanding or controlling an intelligence that operates on fundamentally different principles than our own. My work on alien contact and the limits of cognition suggests that our assumptions about what an advanced AI might 'want' or how it might 'behave' are likely to be flawed, anthropomorphic projections.
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